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Cold War Benefits

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I'm looking at the facts of the Cold War receive any benefits from this International debacle. Benefits that not only helped the United States but other countries as well, so when looking for an actual winner the choices become very hard and blurry. How can one choose a winner from a bucket of benefits. How can you clearly say that one participant benefited when many were also able benefit, not just one country. All that being said when we look at the facts there are many pointing to one country, but being so I hold back my bias and say that there are no conclusive winners because every single participant the word benefit in some way. United States was able to and scientific advancements in the Arsenal. The Soviet was able to gain International

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