The arms race during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was something that was terrifying the whole world. Both countries were investing heavily in new military technology and it always seemed that they can enter into a war with each other and make a new world war that could have ended the whole humanity. The Soviet Union invested much more then the United States in weaponry when compared to their GDP. The Soviets had much smaller GDP then the United States though, and having their primary focus and expenses on military technology was slowly eating their economy. This resulted in the Soviet Union gradually coming to a point where it could not longer exist because of its bad financial politics and too much investment into weaponry, eventually leading to falling apart of the country and bankruptcy.