During the height of the Cold War,what would the United States likely have done if it had discovered that the Soviet Union had previously unknown stockpiles of nuclear weapons?

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During the Cold War, the discovery of previously unknown Soviet nuclear stockpiles would likely have led the United States to increase its own nuclear arsenal in response, as part of the arms race dynamic that characterized the period. Negotiations, military conflict, or extending diplomatic immunities were not the immediate responses to such discoveries in the context of the arms race.

During the Height of the Cold War,what Would the United