rest of chapter 22

The cold war was like the first war that the US was actually a part of. The two groups NATO and warsaw pact separated the rival countries. These were also divided by the iron curtain. The major conflict during this war was nuclear threat. This is besides the point but I like the picture on page 677. I like the pretty orange. But this is a picture of hydrogen bomb, Something that isnt very good. No bombs were used except for later on hiroshima and nagasaki but the threat of the boms were even stronger. Countries began to set forth their efforts to making these destructive bombs in order to have a lead in any encounter at war. During this chapter, communism began to expand but the US didnt allow it to expand to them. The USSR became a threat in the nuclear war but The US still lead the super power. Its weird to think who leads the nuclear threat now? so many countries have nuclear weapons and the US alone has enough to blow up the entire world. why do we need so many? is it just to say we have more and to be ahead of everyone? And would we really use a nuclear bomb on any other country? Theres a lot of questions that I start thinking about when we talk about the wars and nuclear threat. The cuban missle crisis was familiar to me only because Ive learned about it before. Alot of this stuf in this was a repeat of learning but I enjoy learning about this stuff because it is familiar and and it is a sort of recent time period.