The Cold War is generally viewed as a technological weapons race between Capitalism in the United States and Communism in the Soviet Union. The "war" was based around fear that the other side might become more powerful and dominate the world. Some historians have a different view, however.

During the Cold War people such as mastermind scientists Oppenhiemer and Fuchs were supplying data about the bomb they were building to the Soviet Union. The United States and its allies were supplying information and resources to the Soviet Union and the actual tension created between the two nations was a manufactured hoax branded by the media to make the people think that there was actually a war at hand. Citizens on both sides were lied to.