President Truman responded by moving forward with a new nuclear weapon. He also created the Truman Doctrine to contain the advancement of communism by providing support to any nation threatened by communism.
Truman's response to the Soviet Atomic Threat was to forge ahead with a new weapon to maintain America's nuclear superiority.
North Korea had no atomic bombs at the time of the Korean War. What Truman was concerned about was the Soviet atomic bombs and the high probability that Stalin would respond to our use of atomic bombs in that conflict by declaring full scale nuclear war on the US.
authorizing full-scale work on the hydrogen bomb. :]
The Soviet Union had spies in the nuclear weapons development program.
President Truman decided that the United States would offer assistance to any nation threatened by communism. The Soviet Union would not be allowed to expand further. This policy came to be known as the Truman Doctrine
Harry Truman was the president when the airlift foiled the Soviet blockade of West Berlin.
Harry S. Truman:)
free world
President Roosevelt related decrypted Soviet information on the Verona intercepts to Vice-President Truman when he took office.
they called in the atomic bomb.
Truman wasn't president in Potsdam. FDR was still president and sick at the time.
The president adopted a policy of containment toward Soviet expansion and the spread of communism