Because they wanted to establish peace without using chaotic methods
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first USSR nuclear test
The USSR intended to protect itself by building a huge army and by developing nuclear weapons.
Nuclear arms race.
1949 when the USSR tested their first atomic bomb.
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By 1960 the US, USSR, UK, and France had nuclear weapons. China got them in 1964.
first USSR nuclear test
From 1945 until the late 1970s or early 1980s the United States always had the most nuclear weapons. After then the USSR/Russia has had the most nuclear weapons.
As far as we know, no. The USSR did not maintain nuclear weapons in Lithuania.
It showed that the USSR had nuclear weapons.
The USSR intended to protect itself by building a huge army and by developing nuclear weapons.
Originally the USSR was assisting them with reactors and was promising to supply nuclear weapons if needed, so China would not have to develop their own. However the USSR withdrew from this agreement in 1959. This caused China to begin their own nuclear weapons project, culminating in their first test in 1964. So nobody assisted China to develop nuclear weapons. They did it on their own.
yes, it still is
Because the US had them, isn't that enough reason?
Nuclear arms race.
USSR and US The USSR had just passed the US only a couple of years earlier.