Arms Race Quiz

Who was the Nuclear Arms race between?

Fill in the definition: _______ denotes the rapid increase in the quantity or quality of instruments of military power by rival states in peacetime.

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Osaka in Japan.

Who is this?

What is an ICBM?

America paused their nuclear campaign in the mid-60s for almost a decade.

What did Sputnik 2 carry into space in November 1957?

By 1962, USA had 11,300 nuclear weapons.

America dropped their H-Bomb, how many years after the start of the Korean War?

What is this?

Due to the mass of Nuclear weapons, opposing superpowers, USA and USSR began to trust each other more, realising that they both had the ability to completely destroy one another.