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    The document outlines the key events in the arms race between the US and USSR from 1945 to the early 1960s. It began with the US dropping atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, followed by the USSR developing its own atomic bomb in 1949. Throughout the 1950s both sides rapidly developed more powerful nuclear weapons like hydrogen bombs and delivery systems like ICBMs. This caused fear among Americans and a policy of deterrence through mutually assured destruction emerged by the early 1960s.

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    Arms Race Timeline

    1945: US drops
    atomic bombs on
    Hiroshima and
    Nagasaki


    1949: USSR
    develops atomic
    bomb
    Joe 1
    1951: Truman
    establishes Civil
    Defense
    Administration
    Not taken too
    seriously until late
    1950s

    1952: US tests first
    hydrogen bomb
    500 times more
    powerful than bomb
    dropped on Hiroshima

    1953: USSR tests
    hydrogen bomb

    Operation Ivy
    Joe 4
    1954-1958: US
    conducts 19 hydrogen
    bomb tests on Bikini
    Islands
    Castle Romeo 1954
    1954-1958: US
    conducts 19 hydrogen
    bomb tests on Bikini
    Islands

    Dakota 1956
    1954-1958: US
    conducts 19 hydrogen
    bomb tests on Bikini
    Islands

    Operation Hardtack 1958
    1954: US policy of Massive
    Retaliation announced
    Reflected policy of
    brinksmanship

    The ability to get to the verge
    without getting into war is the
    necessary art. If you cannot
    master it, you inevitably get
    into war. If you run away from
    it, if you are scared to go to
    the brink, you are lost.

    --Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 1956

    1956: Eisenhower creates
    National System of Interstate
    and Defense Highways

    1957: USSR
    launches first
    Intercontinental
    Ballistic Missile
    (ICBM)
    1957: USSR
    launches Sputnik
    First artificial satellite
    to orbit the earth
    Shocked Americans


    1958: Congress
    passed the National
    Defense Education
    Act to improve math
    and science
    education

    1960: USSR shoots
    down American U-2
    spy plane
    Early 1960s: US
    adopts policy of
    Mutually Assured
    Destruction
    Whoever attacks first,
    dies second

    The arms race
    scared Americans
    Many built bomb
    shelters
    Government
    encouraged duck
    and cover
    drills

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