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What caused the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union?

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The Soviet Union started the arms race between the U.S and them.

Step-by-step explanation:

Initially, the U.S already possessed atomic weapons but in 1949 the Soviet detonated an atomic bomb and the arms race began. Both countries started building more and bigger bombs

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