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.

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The term "positional arms race" refers to a situation where both sides continue to build more weapons to maintain a balance of power or to match the other side's capabilities, even if they already have enough to ensure mutual destruction. In this case, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were engaged in a nuclear arms race where each side tried to outdo the other in terms of the number and destructive power of their weapons.

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