HIS377H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Nuclear Arms Race, Nikita Khrushchev, Massive Retaliation
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"waging peace : dwight d. eisenhower & the early. Merrill & paterson: chapter 8, dwight d. eisenhower, nikita khrushchev, and nuclear. Reserved right to counter communist aggression wherever it occurred with a swift, decisive nuclear response. Less than a year later, soviet hydrogen bomb. Critics believed that no one could survive such a conflict. Only the us can maintain nuclear weapons to counter the ussr. Security of the free world depends on us economy. Difficult to pursue a policy of simply outdoing the russians. Humanity as a whole should be more important than country. Have to go through gdr to get to berlin. Funds taken from infrastructure projects and directed towards weapons. Reduce size of army since nuclear potential is increased. Should not try to compete with the us more than necessary. May expose us to attack if don"t close gap. Spend on military security more than net income of all american corporations.
