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The devastating US atomic bombing of japan cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only brought World War II to a finish, but effectively gave birth to the Cold War. The postwar world would thereafter be marked by the fragile relationship of two superpowers with opposing ideologies: the United States and the Soviet Union. For 45 years, both of these superpowers would vie for supremacy in world politics. The Cold War, defined by events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, turmoil in the Third World, and the arms race, held the prospect of an apocalyptic confrontation that may have spelled doom for the human race. Understanding the Cold War, with all of its far-reaching, global implications, is completely essential to our knowledge of the history of the next half of the 20th century and beyond.
