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The Arms Race
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Was the arms race a stabilising factor?
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Sprangbreak
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The Arms Race
Stabilising Factors
Hungarian Rising (1957)
No american reaction
Balance was maintained and neither side could achieve a monopoly
Peaceful coexistance aimed to reduce military spending
Nuclear threat and mutually assured destruction
Soviet reluctance to aid china
more care taken by both sides to avoid war
Destabilising factors
American Brinkmanship increased the likelihood of war
Taiwan Straits Crisis (1958), China backs down
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
Rollback
Aggressive foreign policy
Delivery Systems
ICBM (1957)
Bomber gap
TU20 Bear intercontinental bomber
U2 Incident (1960)
Soviet walkout of Paris Summit (1960)
strained relations
Soviet embarassment at lying over missile capability
American Embarrassment at failed cover up
Developments
American Atom bomb (1945)
soviet atom bomb (1949)
American Hydgrogen Bomb (1952)
Soviet hydrogen bomb (1953)
Soviet lithium bomb (1954)
First ICBM (1957)
Sputnik (1957)
Cuban Missile crisis (1962)
Hotline (1963)
Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba
Reomval of American weapons from Turkey
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