After the Soviets successfully tested an atomic bomb in 1949, a nuclear arms race began between the two superpowers of the world, the Soviet Union and the United States. They made so many nuclear weapons that the world could be destroyed many times over if they ever went to nuclear war.
This reality almost came to pass with the Cuban Missile Crisis where the world was too close to nuclear war. After this, both super powers became more concerned about mutually assure destruction if they went to war and made efforts to decrease armaments.
Two major points of the Declaration Of Independence is that is contains the idea that the government <span>must be set up to safeguard the first three conditions, equality and it creates a new form of government.</span>