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Explain how the United States and the Soviet Union used nuclear weapons as a form of deterrence ?

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Okay, so obviously nuclear weapons proved to be a threat that would possibly destroy the world. The Soviet Union and the United States build up a stockpile of nuclear weapons and used the fact that the world may be destroyed to keep the other country at bay. 
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