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I believe that the answer to your question is one of 2 things.
1) It had majority of the world's nuclear weapons.
2) It had displayed immense courage when taking Syria in WWII.
This happened because after the U.S dropping the atomic bombs on Japan Joseph Stalin decided that the balance of powers was lost so he made his own nuclear arsenal to keep things level
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