During World War II, three countries decided to build the atomic bomb: Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The nuclear age began before the Cold War. The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War Was the nuclear-arms race a product of Cold War tension rather than its cause? Did nuclear weapons cause the Cold War? Did they contribute to its escalation? Did they help to keep the Cold War “cold”? We should also ask how the Cold War shaped the development of atomic energy. Nuclear weapons are so central to the history of the Cold War that it can be dificult to disentangle the two. “Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War, 1945-1962,” in Odd Arne Westad and Melvin Leffler, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, vol.
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