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What issues between the two superpowers might have precipitated armed conflict?

• Why was each side so afraid to launch nuclear weapons?
• What was the relationship between the arms race and the policy of deterrence?

What issues between the two superpowers might have precipitated armed conflict? • Why-example-1
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Answer:1 The Cold War saw the two superpowers – the USA and the Soviet Union – divide the world into spheres of influence and power blocs.

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Mutual Assured Destruction

3 Fear of an opponent's weapons, in the absence of any agreement to limit arms, will lead to an arms race to insure stable deterrence.

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