What happened in 1949 that marked the beginning of the arms race ?

The Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb on Aug. 29, 1949, at their facility in Semipalatinsk in what is now Kazakhstan. U.S officials, who believed they would have a longer monopoly on atomic weapons, detected the Soviet explosion on Sept.

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the answer is b. george washington.