The Soviet was able to create for their own nuclear weapons and later was successfully tested. The Cold War tensions were heightened when both the United State and the USSR soon developed hydrogen bombs, and both powers tested their nuclear power (Kiellogg 269). ... Moreover, people of the world over feared the worst that Korea would be the spark to explode the Cold War into a Third World War (Robertson 194). ...

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This battle on Zhenbao Island, and subsequent larger scale border clashes, sparked an already strained relationship between the two powerful nuclear-armed nations. ... At the time, China possessed only a fraction of nuclear weapons in their arsenal and first tested their nuclear weapons only five years prior to the Zhenbao Island incident. ...

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Even before 1939 there were old apprehensions between East and West. The West disliked communism and viewed it as a dishonest and despicable system, one, which was completely incompatible with capitalism. The Western powers supported the Anti-communists in the Russian Civil War proving that they wan...

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