If there is any country that benefited the most from World War II, it is undoubtedly the United States. In World War II, the United States suffered the least, but it did benefit the most, and technology, money, and talent were all earned. With the windfall made in the war, the strength of the United States also surged rapidly, and the Soviet Union on the other side was also terrifyingly powerful. But there can only be one overlord in this world, and there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. The United States and the Soviet Union must fight to the death and decide the winner or loser. Decades of competition have greatly hurt both the United States and the Soviet Union. But during this period, the tremendous military developments were undeniable. The two countries invested a lot of military expenditure to expand their strength, and the size of nuclear warheads during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was the most terrifying, reaching as many as 30,000.
If so many nuclear warheads had all been detonated, I am afraid that the earth would have been blown up long ago. During the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, there were many fierce frictions, the most violent of which was because the United States deployed missiles in Turkey, and then the Soviet Union also deployed a large number of missiles in Cuba. After 13 days of stalemate, the crisis finally ended. According to records at the time, the commanders of the two sides guarded the missile button for 24 hours, and as long as one side moved first, the other side would press the missile button. If there had been a missile salvo, I am afraid that the whole world would have been destroyed.
After the missile crisis was lifted, the two sides shifted the place of contention to the sea, with the US military focusing on aircraft carriers and the Soviet Union focusing on nuclear submarines. When the two sides were deadlocked, the Soviet Union took the lead in playing a hole card, and a 2500-ton Foxtrot-class submarine left the port to carry out patrols. The submarine carried 80 soldiers into the United States, but was searched by the US sonar system on the way, and the US military immediately rushed out to directly send 200 warships to search for the submarine on the sea and surround it. How could a submarine withstand the encirclement of 200 warships, and in a desperate situation, the Soviet captain issued a death order to all the officers and men of the submarine, asking them to swear that they could not resist.
After holding out for a week, the captain of the Foxtrot-class submarine gradually lost the will he had once had, and he changed his previous decision and ordered the submarine to surface. Because the submarine has been staying underwater and cannot be ventilated, and then does not surface to breathe, all the officers and men of the submarine have to account for it here, and he feels that he cannot let so many people die with him because of his own decision. So he ordered the surface, and the American warships had been waiting on the surface for a long time. Later, the U.S. military seized the Soviet submarine and returned all the officers and men captured to the Soviet Union. Other soldiers were spared military punishment, but the captain was court-martialed and sentenced to life in prison. Afterwards, the captain said he did not regret the decision at all.