nuclear arms
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There’s a question historians will one day ask of this era: Who started the global nuclear arms race?
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
"The prospects of a new nuclear arms race are looming over us."
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
In the second half of the 20th Century, it was the race to develop nuclear arms that occupied some of the finest minds in the US and the Soviet Union.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
The question of how to limit nuclear arms is all the more pressing as it follows the expiration earlier this month of the New Start treaty that reduced U.S. and Russian long-range nuclear arms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
But their pleas went unheeded; the prospect of a national strategic advantage galvanized both the U.S.S.R. and the United States, and the nuclear arms race began.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
