... power. Through the use of the Atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan; it provided a definite proof of what America was capable of. With the announcement from the Soviet Union lead by Joseph Stalin in 1949 they too had the nuclear capability to launch a weapon with the same devastating power. Much of this technology was retained through the use of western spies located with ... world. But it is obvious that neither of the countries would actually deploy such weapons on one another, because both knew each could retaliate with the same devastating weapon. Once Stalin died, Nikita Khrushchev took ...

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