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United States and weapons of mass destruction
The
United States
is known to have possessed three types of
weapons of mass destruction
:
nuclear weapons
,
chemical weapons
, and
biological weapons
. The U.S. is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in
combat
in the
atomic bombings
of
Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
in
World War II
. It had secretly developed the earliest form of the atomic weapon during the 1940s under the title "
Manhattan Project
". The United States pioneered the development of both the
nuclear fission
and
hydrogen
bombs (the latter involving
nuclear fusion
). It was the world's first and only nuclear power for four years before being joined in the "
nuclear club
" by the
Soviet Union
. The United States has the second largest number of deployed nuclear weapons in the world, after Russia.
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