The Cold War
The Cold War could be described as an icy stare down. War never actually broke out between the Soviet Union and USA and it was more of one country trying to prove they were better than the other. Examples of this are seen in the arms race when each country went into crazy production of weapons based on MAD. This brings up the point of MAD which was created during the cold war. MAD, Mutual Assured Destruction, was the idea that if war broke out, the countries that were hit would be absolutely destroyed because of the nuclear bombs. This made citizens very scared and was also one of the basic ideas of the Cold War.
I agree that throughout the Cold War, it was just a "war" to see who was more powerful, but no real war broke out. MAD helped out a lot, showing countries if you do attack you will also be attacked which changed many nations thoughts on attacking.
ReplyDeleteMAD is the idea that if two nations had the capability to eliminate 25%-50% of their populations, neither nation would dare attack each other. Although the cold war was just an "icy stare down", nuclear war could have easily been started due to high tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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