... , rather than military confrontation characterized the conflict between US and SU. In June of 1946, Truman submitted to the UN an atomic-energy control plan requiring the SU to stop all work on nuclear weapons and to submit to a system of UN control and inspection before the US would destroy its own atomic arsenal. Soviets rejected proposal. Mutual hostility escalated and ... endure for much of the next 4 decades. Truman wanted to end the economic devastation in Europe so he comprised the Marshall Plan that would help the hungry and homeless in all European countries. ...

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