Question

Which of the following best describes Eisenhower’s position on the arms race?

The United States would be defeated by the USSR in a competition to build the strongest weapons.

If one nation used its nuclear weapons on another, both nations would be destroyed.

Americans were tired of war and would revolt against government use of nuclear weapons.
We have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

—President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Second Inaugural Address

Answer 1

"If one nation used its nuclear weapons on another, both nations would be destroyed."

Eisenhower was warning that modern weapons made mutual annihilation possible, so the arms race threatened humanity and required restraint and a search for peace.