The Cold War produced an arms race as well as arms control. What were the reasons for boththese developments ?

(i) Miscalculation of the number of weapons in the possession of the other camp.

(ii) Misunderstanding the intentions of the otherside.

(iii) A nuclear accident by mistake or by a soldier mischievously to start a war.Thus, both the powers - the US and the Soviet Union - decided to limit or eliminate certain kinds ofnuclear and non-nuclear weapons to maintain a stable balance of weapons. Starting in the 1960s, three treatieswere signed. These were Limited Test Ban Treaty, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Anti-BallisticMissile Treaty.