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A Cold War & a Hot Bomb

After World War II, the Soviet Union propped up Communist governments in eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain had descended, and the U.S. responded with a policy of deterring further expansion.
An excerpt from Cold Warriors Never Die.
Courtesy 1990 NET Foundation for Television

In 1950, the U.S. government adopted a new cornerstone of its foreign policy based on the finding that the Soviet Union was likely to launch a surprise attack on us "once it has sufficient atomic capacity." That assessment was included ... Read more