A large-scale nuclear exchange followed by a conventional war which itself would involve heavy use of tactical nuclear weapons.
They each wanted to promote their competing political ideologies.
The military threat grew out of the mutual ideological threat between the west and the east.
the answer is containment,which was simply not to have any battles with the soviet union but to simply stop them from enpanding and just stay at their borders stoping them were ever they found a gap through the defences of the u.s
In the eyes of the government of the Soviet Union, every nation that it couldn't influence or conquer was a threat. In fact the Soviet Union was a very real threat to every non-communist nation on the planet, and a real threat to Communist China.
If anything Dwight Eisenhower believed the Soviet threat was immense. Harry Truman did not believe they could create a significant threat so soon after being devastated in World War II.
Truman's response to the Soviet Atomic Threat was to forge ahead with a new weapon to maintain America's nuclear superiority.
They each wanted to promote their competing political ideologies.
The United States was the first country to develop an atomic weapon.
The military threat grew out of the mutual ideological threat between the west and the east.
the answer is containment,which was simply not to have any battles with the soviet union but to simply stop them from enpanding and just stay at their borders stoping them were ever they found a gap through the defences of the u.s
In the eyes of the government of the Soviet Union, every nation that it couldn't influence or conquer was a threat. In fact the Soviet Union was a very real threat to every non-communist nation on the planet, and a real threat to Communist China.
If anything Dwight Eisenhower believed the Soviet threat was immense. Harry Truman did not believe they could create a significant threat so soon after being devastated in World War II.
The Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb in 1949.
The Rosenbergs were involved in the Manhattan Project which designed and made the first atomic bomb. They spied for the Soviet Union and passed the information to the Soviet Union on how to make an atomic bomb. They were caught and were executed for spying. With the breakup of the Soviet Union, the great value of their spying to the Soviet Atomic Bomb program was revealed.
.....that Cuba was preparing to install Russian missiles on its soil, which made for a direct threat of atomic bomb-attack on the US.
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