... 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 Soviets and American ... rushed to develop doomsday weapons. Truman outlined the Truman Doctrine, which laid the foundation for American Cold war policy that would endure for much of the next 4 decades. Truman ... ...

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