3.1 Arms race and Cold War

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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