Training for War in Vietnam

Lt Col (Rtd) Tony Howell MC, RNZIR / NZSA

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In 1945, the world had two atomic bombs, and they were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. By 1955, the United States, Great Britain and Russia owned 2,636 nuclear weapons between them. By 1965, France and China had joined that exclusive club and the number of nuclear weapons had increased to 37,741. The world survived the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis following a tense standoff between the US and the USSR. To try and avoid another nuclear confrontation between the East and the West, a war through proxies evolved. This was called the Cold War.