Fearing the worst : how Korea transformed the Cold War /
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, in...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Woodrow Wilson Center series.
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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.