It was the fact that world super powers at the time (U.S) and (U.S.S.R) where building up an armory of nukes but they both knew if they where to use these weapons it would utterly destroy the world.
Here's a memory aid: (U.S): hey Russia lets not kill each other with nukes in this war lets just keep it "COOL" and spy on each other instead
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i do wanna explain it right now but maybe later
Explanation:
A.New York’s mountainous terrain would allow them to set up strong defenses .
I believe it is equality. I am not sure in what context this is asking, but I am pretty sure it is equality.