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  title info:
    title: Fearing the worst
    sub title: how Korea transformed the Cold War
  name:
    name part: Wells, Samuel F.
    name part: Jr
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 586 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Worst Case considers how the Cold War and its shape as a strategic confrontation between two superpowers flowed from the Korean War. The book examines the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, each superpower's relations with its allies, and the roles of technology, intelligence and domestic politics in the decisions of the key nations. The United States reluctantly funded massive increases in nuclear weapons, strategic bombers and nuclear submarines because the leaders of the Truman administration concluded that Stalin was prepared to start World War III to advance his interests in Asia and Europe. In the absence of any reliable intelligence on Soviet or Chinese decision making, the key people in the administration accepted the worst case as a real possibility, and prepared for it. What they did not know is that Stalin was working consistently to avoid war with the United States, that Mao was not a puppet of Moscow but had his own ambitious agenda in Asia and that Kim Il-sung had convinced Stalin that he could produce a low-cost victory in Korea that would give the Soviet Union warm-water ports and a reliable client state strategically positioned to influence Japan and the states of southeast Asia. Through materials from archives and previously restricted published materials in Russia, China and North Korea that have become accessible in recent years, The Worst Case provides insights into the reasons behind choices made by leaders in the communist countries to add to the well-researched records on the Western side.
  table of contents: Stalin Endorses War in Asia -- Kim Il-sung Plans an Attack -- Truman Consolidates US Commitments -- Joseph McCarthy Sells the Politics of Fear -- Paul Nitze Sounds the Tocsin -- North Korea Drives South -- Truman Reverses Policy -- Douglas MacArthur Gambles and Wins -- Mao Zedong Intervenes Massively -- Peng Dehuai and Matthew Ridgway Fight to a Stalemate -- George C. Marshall and Robert Lovett Guide a US Buildup -- Dean Acheson Leads the Defense of Europe -- Andrei Tupolev Creates a Strategic Bomber Force -- Curtis LeMay Builds the Strategic Air Command -- Igor Kurchatov Develops Soviet Nuclear Weapons -- Walter Bedell Smith Reforms and Expands the CIA -- Korea Transforms the Cold War.
  note: Samuel F. Wells, Jr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-kr---
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    topic: World politics
    temporal: 1945-1955
  subject:
    topic: World politics
    temporal: 1955-1965
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
  subject:
    topic: Korean War, 1950-1953
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    geographic: Korea
    topic: Strategic aspects
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Military policy
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Military relations
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Military relations
    geographic: United States
  classification: D843 .W434 2020
  classification: 951.904/21
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Woodrow Wilson Center series
  identifier: 9780231192743
  identifier: 0231192746
  identifier: 9780231549943
  identifier: 2019028614
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190816
    record change date: 20200729072821.0
    record identifier: in00004123353