During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an arms race in which both states invested heavily in developing and producing a large artillery of nuclear weapons. Each side sought to build more advanced and destructive weapons in order to protect themselves from attack and provide their allies with the weaponry or information on how to produce the weaponry

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The issue identified in this document is the dangerous escalation of the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, resulting in the development and production of more destructive nuclear weapons.