The cold war today.

Although the cold war was several years ago, there are some good and bad lasting effects. We got a lot of things from the cold war. Because of the competition between America and Russia, we made and found a lot of new technology, weapons, medicines and more. We built our country economically, financially, and militarily. Because of our need to one-up them and them to one-up us, the "nuclear weapon" was created. We've all heard of the H-bomb and the A-bomb, but after we made those, we kept making bigger and better weapons until America and Russia today own 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. Good thing we're not enemies anymore... Recently, the U.S. and Russia signed Russia and U.S. Sign Nuclear Arms Reduction Pact, which cut the 2 countries nuclear weapons in half! Although the Cold war is behind us we could still see a little "we'll only do it when you do" as we signed this pact.