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Lead to a slight thawing of Cold War tensions for the next 5 years or so.
- Why?
- New Soviet Leaders want to consolidate leadership
- Wish to gain converts to Communism through example rather than by force
- New US President Eisenhower has military credibility so doesn’t appear ‘weak’ in backing down
- Also backlash against McCarthyism
- MAD becoming a real possibility
- Costs of Arms Race for both sides
- Britain explodes own bomb 1952
- France in 1960