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The lasting effects of the Nuclear Arms Race and Cold War

The first arms negotiation which took place in Moscow between Moscow and Washington in the year of the 1969 aimed at reducing the massive weapons which were established during the cold war failed . Consequently there was the formation of the ABM Treaty in the year of 1972 between the Moscow and Washington , whereby it was agreed that the involved countries would reduce the nuclear missile system , but this treaty has been in jeopardy . At the same time there was the formation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treat (NPT , which was one of the

arms treat which was negotiated in the post war era . This NPT treaty which was signed in the year of 1968 was considered as one of the most important treaty which would have improved the security of the world but it has been constantly claimed that it was a plot between Moscow and Washington to promote their own interests (Crocker 27

Actually the conflict which is in the high degree between the Soviet Union and the Western world as been regarded as the basic catalyzing factor which is increasing the arms race in the present world (Dobrynini15 .Although the collapse of the Soviet union in the year of 1991 was seen as the end of the arms race , this is not true . There is a lot of political struggles in the present world which has promoted the insecurity thus taking the place of the cold war . As the increase of the nuclear dangers is still felt in the present world , then the nuclear powers will not justify before the global world the reasons why they are holding their nuclear production strategies

The present world has tremendously changed . After the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the cold war , the world had prophesized the end of...

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