The Cold War: A Gamble of the Ages
Chance. 50/50. 1:2. Odds. These terms are familiar in gambling. Bet it all give it a shot. Is it worth the consequences? Are the problems worth the rewards? Imagine a gamble between life and death, war and peace. Would it be worth the destruction to have your way? What would you do to keep a competitor out of the game? Going neck and neck to find a way around combat. Would the world be the same? What would happen if you lost? When tension between World War II grows, a gamble for nuclear arms rises, becoming the cold war.
The cold war didn’t start all at once, in the beginning it was made up of speeches and small worries that slowly ate away at their hosts. Calls for preparedness were sounded which gave way to large dramatic events. According to The Cold War; A Military History in 1946, President Harry S. Truman was worried that the Union of Soviet Socialists (U.S.S.R) wanted to invade Turkey. They were demanding to be allowed to establish naval and army bases. The gamble was taking form.
On March 5, 1962 in the small town of Fulton, Missouri, “Winston Churchill gave his now famous "Iron Curtain" speech to a crowd of 40,000.” (qtd. in Rosenberg). According to the web article by Jennifer Rosenberg (Rosenberg), before Churchill had given his speech the U.S. and Britain had been caught up with their post-war economies, and grateful for the U.S.S.R.’s helpful role in ending World War II.
In 1949, the U.S. was shocked when the U.S.S.R. was able to successfully reproduce a nuclear missile, when, the U.S. had been carefully guarding the plans for the missiles. The missiles continued to improve when, in January of 1950 a German theoretical physicist named Klaus...
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...sted of many risks and chances making it as dangerous as act of true combat. The race for nuclear arms could have been prevented carefully, but not stopped all together. The need for power and to be better was what dragged the War on. The gamble was too much for either country, and the world will never be the same again because of it.
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Ironically, the development of the atomic bombs dropped at Nagasaki and Hiroshima came about as a result of the advice of a German refugee and theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein. The acclaimed physicist urged the U.S. government to deeply invest in the research of nuclear weapons since it appeared that Nazi Germany was well on their way to successfully develop such a weapon—and so, it became a race to the finish line. The country that could achieve success in the development of such a destructive weapon would undoubtedly possess immense power over those who did not.
Once, there was a girl, her name was Robin, and she lived in Canada deep in the woods.
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By another account, the Cold War began in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, having been a conflict between Bolshevism and Democracy. The Cold War got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other in such a “hot war”, nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead, they fought each other indirectly. They played havoc with conflicts in different parts of the world. They used words as weapons.