In that speech, he noted that the United States had exploded more than forty atomic and nuclear weapons as part of its weapons development programs. In 1953, President Eisenhower made his famous Atoms for Peace speech at the United Nations. American citizens began to recognize their vulnerability as the Soviet military began constructing its own atomic arsenal. ![]() Just four years later, however, Soviet scientists matched the American achievement, detonating their own atomic weapon and achieving parity in the atomic age. America began producing an arsenal of atomic weapons after the war, confident that it would maintain its atomic monopoly for up to a decade. Though several world powers had joined the race to harness atomic power for military use, the United States had prevailed, testing its first fission weapon in July 1945 and dropping two atomic bombs on Japan the following month. ![]() INTRODUCTIONĪt the end of World War II in 1945, the United States was the world's most powerful nation, the sole country possessing atomic weapons. ![]() About the Author: This photograph resides in the Bettmann Archives of Corbis Corporation, an image group headquartered in Seattle with a worldwide archive of over seventy million images.
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