By the Mid 1970s,the U

Multiple Choice

By the mid 1970s,the U.S.and the U.S.S.R.had sufficient nuclear weapons to destroy the entire world several times,yet both countries continued to build more.The plausible explanation for this behaviour is

A) the influence of the military industrial complex in the two countries.
B) a positional arms race.
C) a need to replace old,small nuclear weapons with new,big ones.
D) paranoid political leaders.
E) that the U.S.continued only because the U.S.S.R.continued.