The Cold War was so called because there was almost no direct combat between the United States and Russia, just a lot of tension, hostility, and potential violence. They were heading towards mutually assured destruction; using weapons of mass destruction which were nuclear bombs and ensuring inevitable destruction for both sides if the bombs exploded and final victory for no one in the end. Each alliance group, the Warsaw Pact and NATO, expertly created nuclear weapons to threaten the other. Should either country decide to attack using its own fatal nuclear weapon, the other would not be left empty-handed. Both the United States and Russia believed that their first priority was to keep themselves as secure as possible through the creation of nuclear weapons. This gave rise to a competition to become the most prepared and powerful, known as The Nuclear Arms Race. Since the Cold War had caused many conflicts, it had also had to deal with the difficulties of the economy resulting from the remnants of the Second World War and the 1970s which had really brought the whole situation to a head. At the beginning of the nuclear arms race, it was commonly believed that nuclear weapons provided more benefit than cost, thus justifying their somewhat frivolous expenditure. While the greater explosive power of nuclear weapons may cause them to be cheaper per kiloton, as is the case in today's wholesale world of a particular item, this statement proves false to the arms race and even hides the real economic costs of nuclear weapons. . Economic pressure on the United States had already been exerted in previous years and had had a negative impact before the start of the nuclear arms race, and all the millions, billions and even trillions spent on acc...... half of the paper......how good. The economy is paralyzed and the environment has faced serious disadvantages. It had transformed already tense relations into even worse ones, causing further unease among the world's major powers. Although the arms race increased the overall power of the United States, it did so at an uncontrollable cost. Among all these things, the arms race also led to the current events of today's history. Although the two countries had battled platonically, much was changed not for the greater good of the nations but in an attempt to be superior. “The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies dipped in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five” as Carl Sagan said. This statement could not have been closer to the truth despite the lasting effects of the competition between the United States and Russia, long known as the nuclear arms race...