The End of the Cold War

Throughout the 1980s, the Soviet Union began warfare increasingly frustrating in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Soviet economy faced a cost of intensifying arms race competition. In the case of economic stagnation, domestic opposition is rising without economic stagnation. Reforms attempted at home reluctant to challenge the Soviet Union to its dominance in Eastern Europe. Between 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall collapsed, the borders opened, and free elections overthrew the Communist regime throughout Eastern Europe. At the end of 1991, the Soviet Union itself broke up as part of the Republic. At an amazing speed, the iron curtain was lifted and the Cold War ended.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 basically ended the Cold War. However, despite the global concern about nuclear war, the end of the Cold War has not ended the threat of nuclear weapons use. In a major movement of symbolic downgrading, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia will cease to target US cities with nuclear weapons on January 26, 1992. Designing, testing, manufacturing, deploying and defending nuclear weapons is one of the largest expenditures in countries holding nuclear weapons. In the Cold War era, "One quarter to one third of the military expenses since the Second World War were used for nuclear weapons and infrastructure."

During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union began to participate in nuclear weapons competition. They spent billions of dollars to build huge nuclear weapons. At the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union used about 27% of the gross national product for military purposes. This seriously affected their economy and helped to end the Cold War. A nuclear bomb is a very powerful weapon that can destroy an entire city and kill thousands of people. Nuclear weapons were used in the war was the only time that was done to Japan at the end of World War II. The premise of the Cold War is that both political parties do not want to participate in nuclear war that could destroy most civilizations world.

With the end of the Cold War and the rise of the 24-hour news network, violence has become widespread and realistic. But more importantly - if you avoid nuclear threats, the violence of war can safely be reintegrated into the landscape. Iran - the war in Iraq has hardly announced headlines, and most Westerners have not fully noticed that this war has occurred. However, with the conclusion of the Cold War, the conflict such as the dissolution of Yugoslavia was completely aired like a massacre at the height of Graham.