Not only do I think that the Cold War was not won on the battlefield of politics between the United States and the Soviet Union, I think it is a misconception to say that it was 'won' at all. With regard to the objectives both sides had during the Cold War, that being to eliminate the perpetuation of the other's ideology, the (relative) lack of combat seems to say to me that this conflict was not so much the collision of two diametrically opposed objectives, but the tension resulting from the proximity of two parallel objectives. The Soviets therefor thought that they had an advantage knowing the US’s “secret.” However the Soviets could not come up with a solution, they kept spending more and more money trying to come up with an answer but were unsuccessful and eventually their economy sank. This put the US way ahead of the soviets. This program was successful in driving them away. The soviets could no longer keep up to this kind of science. This was successful because it hit the Soviets in exactly the right place. The US knew that they were not as wealthy them and therefore found their weak spots. The soviets lost the Cold war from not having as strong an economy in comparison to the US at that time.