Nuclear parity

Question 1

What could the economy of the USSR not produce as effectively as that of the USA?

Answer 1

Nuclear weapons

Question 2

By the end of 1969, what was the USA’s and USSR’s nuclear arsenal?

Answer 2

USA’s nuclear arsenal consisted of 28,200 warheads

USSR’s nuclear arsenal held only 11,000 warheads

Question 3

What did detente offer the USSR?

Answer 3

The possibility of achieving nuclear parity through treaties that limited the nuclear stockpiles of both countries

Question 4

What is nuclear parity?

Answer 4

A roughly equal balance between the nuclear arsenals of the East and the West