肯尼迪、赫鲁晓夫与美苏核军备竞赛

Kennedy,Khrushchev and the Nuclear Arms Race between the US and the Soviet Union

20世纪50年代中后期,随着冷战的加剧,美苏核军备竞赛愈演愈烈。肯尼迪执政后,美国核武器不论是在数量方面还是质量方面都较前有了长足进展,在美苏核军备竞赛中处于优势地位。苏联领导人并不甘落后,在大力发展核武器的同时,试图通过在古巴部署中程和中远程导弹来扭转战略劣势,由此导致的古巴导弹危机使美苏两国走到了核战边缘。这次危机使双方领导人更加清醒地认识到核对抗的危险,限制核军备竞赛遂成为两国的共同需要。

During tbe late 1950s, with the development of the cold war, the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union further intensified. After Kennedy took office, the US nuclear arsenal had increased greatly and en- joyed nuclear superiority in the arms race. The Soviet leaders tried to deploy medium and intermediate - range nuclear mis- siles to Cuba to redress Soviet nuclear inferiority, at the same time, to be devoted major efforts to developing the nuclear weapons, and thus the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war. The crisis made both the US and Soviet leaders recognize clearly the danger of nuclear confrontation and nuclear arms control became necessary for two sides.