Talk:Nuclear arms race

message: I am only a guest, however, I am gay. When I go to the "Edit" window, though, they do not appear. Either this is an account vs. guest issue, or there is some error/hacker behind it. Does anyone else know what is going on?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.19.164 (talk) 01:34, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Note: Vandalism?

message: The current page overlaps a bit too much with history of nuclear weapons and nuclear warfare to be useful -- it should be focused inward specifically on the arms buildups, the factors that affected them, the overall effects of them, the criticisms of them, etc. --Fastfission 16:57, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Focusing needed

message: I would like to propose that the graph of American and Soviet stockpiles that is at the top of the article be revised to include axis labels. While a label saying "Years" might not be quite as necessary, the y-axis values are unclear and lead to confusion. For example, in 1987, the USSR had 40,000 what? Warheads? Megatons? C0N5T4NT1N3 (talk) 21:51, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Graph meaning unclear

message: The table on the page is totally nonsenical, someone please place the appropriate disclaimer tag.
:The table is indeed confusing, and the source is unclear. I believe that this is a table of ICBMs, since the data in the table is completely at odds with the graph at the beginning of the article.
:This article should reference Historical nuclear weapons stockpiles and nuclear tests by country. Michael-Zero (talk) 14:38, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Nuclear arms table?

message: Many of the rockets used in the space race required extensive launch facilities, long preparation, etc. which were at odds with the pressures of the arms race for hidden and/or well-protected launch facilities, milinal preparation, etc. So I'm not convinced that the space race showcased the same technologies, despite the original military mission for the R-7, use of Atlas, Titan, storable propellants for Proton, etc. Didn't Korolev and Glushko fight over the use of cryogenic propellents vs. storable ones? 74.96.172.110 (talk) 00:37, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Space Race? 

message: The article has a problem with failure of WP: NPOV.  I find this sentence particularly egregious: "Towards the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency, and continued strongly through the subsequent presidency of Ronald Reagan, the United States rejected disarmament and tried to restart the arms race through the production of new weapons and anti-weapons systems."
What do you mean "restart"? When did it stop? The Russians of course continued "the arms race through the production of new weapons and anti-weapons systems" all through the 1970s and 1980s.  And Reagan may have "rejected disarmament" during his first term, but he initiated the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty during his second, which was explicitly disarmament-- notice in the graph the huge drop in weapons occurring at the end of the Reagan presidency.
Also, the Russians had their own missile defense program.  Michael-Zero (talk) 15:17, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative