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The Cold War A balanced friendship between the United States and Russia had lasted for nearly 100 years. Even though Russia and the Americans had contrasting political beliefs they still managed to keep an alliance in the 1930’s and early 40’s to defeat the growing surge of fascism that Hitler had made popular in Europe and other countries through out the world. But when the United States dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese to …

…in Turkey. The Cuban missile crisis was over. This conflict between the two countries was so serious that it nearly ended the world. If Khrushchev didn’t order his ships to be turned around nuclear war would have started. We need to get rid of all nuclear weapons in the world erasing the chance that one day a nuclear war will begin. We cannot take the risk, with such a deadly thing like nuclear weapons.