... of success as they employed a range of methods to limit communist control, including the formation of alliances, the threat of nuclear weapons or other military force, covert military opposition, efforts at diplomacy and cooperation, and confrontation with the Soviets. The U.S. had traditionally been reluctant to involve itself in world affairs; this isolationist policy began to disappear after the war, when it ... , during his years in office to account for the Soviet test of such a missile in 1957. Nixon began his presidency with the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, which was designed ...

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... fear that drove the cold war, the fear that has forever changed world politics. The fear is real, more real today than ever, for the ease at which a nuclear bomb is achieved in this day and age sparks fear in the hearts of most people on this planet. According to General Douglas ... is that good men do nothing." The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought us into a war which we had vainly hoped to avoid. We could no longer "do nothing" but were compelled to "do something" to roll back the Japanese militarists. Victims of aggression have every right both to end the ... concern for the s...

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