HIST-UA 757 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dean Acheson, Nuclear Weapon, Plano Real
20 Feb 2017
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Nsc-68 was a document president truman ordered after the russian nuclear bomb was successfully tested and the announcement of the peoples republic of china. Said that the us needed a defensible alternative to nuclear weapons, which meant elite combat forces. It was an overarching summation of the problems for the president; the words within the document became the vocabulary that shaped public discourse. One of the main arguments within nsc-68 is that by pouring money into defense it would stimulate the economy. The development of russian nuclear weapons forces winston churchill to move away from aggressive and hawkish tendencies and policies. The british found nsc-68 to be too ideologically charged regarding the declaration of 2 major powers (the us and russia) duking it out over domination of the globe. The prime minister of india was also appalled by the document, he saw independence as the great driving force in the world @ the end of the 1940"s.
