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The Soviet Union Joins the Nuclear Club
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In August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested their own atomic bomb, prompting the United States to acknowledge their newfound threat. The era of the United States being the only nuclear power was over, and the fear and tension of potential nuclear war began to escalate.
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1949 was a defining year that saw the US lose China, the formation of NATO, and with the Soviet Union becoming a nuclear power, it marked the end of the period where atomic power rested in the hands of only one country, leading to a new dynamic of both sides being able to do unimaginable damage to each other.
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NATO
Summary
1949 was a defining year that saw the US lose China, the formation of NATO, and with the Soviet Union becoming a nuclear power, it marked the end of the period where atomic power rested in the hands of only one country, leading to a new dynamic of both sides being able to do unimaginable damage to each other.