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Created by samstevenson2014
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Question | Answer |
What did the US spend vast amounts of money developing during WW2? | New weapons |
Which was the main achievement? | Atom bomb |
What was the the superpowers' competition called? | The arms race |
2 firms the arms race poured huge sums of money into | Boeing and IBM |
What was the link between army and business often called? | Military-Industrial Complex |
What did the Soviet Union do in 1949? | Exploded their own atom bomb |
What did US produce in turn and when? | Hydrogen bomb in 1952 |
How many times more powerful than atom bomb? | 1000 |
What was designed in the 60's? | A neutron bomb |
What for? | To kill people without destroying buildings |
How were the tests banned? | Test Ban Treaty 1963 |
When did supersonic planes appear ? | 1950's |
When did stealth technology enable planes to avoid detection by enemy radar? | 1980's |
What were the Minutemen? | Missiles that could be fired at short notice from underground bunkers and carry nuclear war-heads into Soviet Union |
What did the Peacemaker missile have the ability to do? | Break into several war-heads each carrying a bomb to a separate target |
What were nuclear powered submarines powered with? | Polaris and eventually Trident: missiles carrying nuclear bombs |
What were U-2's? | High-flying planes that could fly at 70,000 feet |
Spy satellites eventually developed into... | Global Positioning Systems (GPS) |
By when did each side have enough weapons to destroy the other and the earth many times over? | 1970's |
What do historians believe each side feared? | "Mutually assured destruction" MAD |
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