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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It distinguishes different punishments for different social classes and It gives harsher penalties for crimes committed against people of the lower classes.
The confederate wanted that to be decided so they could have slavery