Nuclear weapons continued to pose threat from "summary" of The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
The destructive power of nuclear weapons, as evidenced by the devastation caused in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, continued to hang ominously over the world throughout the Cold War. The development of even more powerful and sophisticated nuclear arsenals by the United States and the Soviet Union heightened tensions and raised the stakes of any potential conflict between the two superpowers. Mutually assured destruction (MAD) became a guiding principle in nuclear strategy, as both sides knew that any nuclear conflict would result in catastrophic consequences for all parties involved. The fear of escalation and the catastrophic effects of a nuclear exchange kept the United States and the Soviet Union in a state of uneasy peace, as both sides understood that the use of nuclear weapons would lead to mutual annihilation. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, as the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense standoff over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. The crisis underscored the precarious nature of the nuclear b...
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