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== h The United States and the U.S.S.R (Present-Day Russia) A fight for "Supremacy" between the two powers by building up massive stockpiles of nuclear weaponry After WWII, During the Cold War Each power built up stockpiles of nuclear weapons in their own country. Each country believed that the more nuclear power they had, the more powerful they were over all.

After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, The Soviet Union and the United states began to build massive amounts of nuclear weaponry. It was a race between both powers; both believed that if they had the most nuclear power, then they would essentially be the most powerful. In 1952, The U.S. successfully built a hydrogen bomb; a bomb much smaller than the atom bomb, but about 2500 more powerful. A year later, the U.S.S.R. built one of their own. In no time, each power had built enough nuclear weapons to completely destroy a large slice of the world, this is known as "Overkill." With both countries harboring an almost unlimited amount of potential nuclear destruction, it was inevitable that regardless of who issued the first strike, the war would ultimately end with "Mutually Assured Destruction," or, M.A.D. Knowing this kept both countries from launching an attack on the other, and kept a nuclear war from breaking out.

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