Nuclear Fission Creates Cold War Era Nuclear Weapons

The cold war era was a full power race of arms and tensions between the united states and the ussr.

Nuclear family titans cast nuclear bomb north korea. By far the greatest force driving the development of nuclear weapons after world war ii though not by any means the only force was the cold war confrontation that pitted the united states and its allies against the soviet union and its satellite states. While these were the only two nuclear bombs to be used during active warfare their use spawned a nuclear arms race that lasted for more than half a century. Soviets took a big jump in developing nuclear weapons and came out with the concept of the automatic nuclear weapon system.

The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the united states the soviet union and their respective allies during the cold warduring this very period in addition to the american and soviet nuclear stockpiles other countries developed nuclear weapons though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. This is why all modern nuclear weapon designs since about 1960 use this newer third generation process. The world greatly changed when usa exploded the h bomb in 1952.

The history of cold war nuclear weapons dates back to world war ii when the united states dropped two nuclear bombs on japan. Photograph provided by donald boelling. Many feared where the cold war was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had the more powerful you were.

The willingness of several players to use these diabolical weapons should send a chill down the spine of every sensible person we are living in a new nuclear age far more dangerous and deadly than the previous cold war era with its balance of nuclear power held in check by the terrifying concept of mutually assured destruction. Amidst such conflicts and confrontations the soviets thought to turn the table. Although there remains a residual case for retention of minimal nuclear weapons inventories among the nuclear states and although some states israel pakistan face security threats which go to their very survival and thus make weapons of last resort worth acquiring the vast majority of the worlds nuclear weapons are militarily worthless and should be destroyed.

The nuclear arms race was central to the cold war. However with u 235 uranium based weapons and hollow core boosted fission fusion weapons you do not have this problem. First off u 235 based weapons do not have an aging problem.

The spread of these weapons to other nation states dubbed nuclear proliferation was a great concern during the cold war. Both america and russia massively built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons.