RUSSIA and Nuclear Weapons

The Nuclear Arms Race drove the Soviet Union to economic collapse, forcing them to spend more on guns than butter. There was also a conventional arms race, where the U.S. armed rebel groups in countries with communist China or Soviet Union backed governments; and China and Russia armed rebel groups in countries with U.S. backed governments. When the Cold War was over it left warlords and dictators in control of large caches of armaments, which resulted in civil war, oppression, refugees, and starvation, as we saw in Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo in the Balkans; in Cambodia in Southeast Asia; in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, and Somalia in Africa; in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chili, and El Salvador, in Central and South America; and Afghanistan in Asia. spiritandpoverty.com © Mitch Carter 2008