Question

The united states and soviet union kept building up the nuclear arsenal because knew how many bombs the other had.

Answer 1

Neither

Further Explanation:

It is referred to as the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. There was a competition between them on the supremacy nuclear warfare during the Cold War. Both the countries stockpiled their nuclear weapons and amid this other countries have developed nuclear weapons. Though nobody engaged in a war as these two countries. The three nations which made nuclear weapons are the UK, China and France during the Cold War years. The USA past Atomic Energy Act 1964 that prohibits multinational corporation on any nuclear projects. This act fuelled resentment among UK scientist as they believed of the agreement regarding the sharing of nuclear technology which led Britain in developing their nuclear weapons. Britain decided to test hydrogen bomb in November 1957. So that was amended which allowed Cooperation again i.e. British-US nuclear program. The nuclear deterrence of the British came from submarines and nuclear-armed aircraft. France posses nuclear weapon on 13th February 1960. China became Nuclear Power on 16 October 1964. They developed their nuclear weapons with an assistant from the Soviet Union. But later in 1950 China and Soviet split up and China still progressed in developing a nuclear weapon in the 1960s.  

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Nuclear Arms Race

Subject: Social Science

Keywords:

Nuclear arms race, competition, supremacy, atomic energy act, multinational cooperation.

Answer 2

The answer that will complete the sentence after the word ‘because’ is nether. It is because both the united states and soviet union have no knowledge about how many bombs each of the party has, that is why they kept building up their nuclear arsenal.