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The first [[Soviet atomic bomb project|Soviet atomic bomb]] in 1949 was a virtual carbon copy of “[[Fat Man]],” the implosion-type plutonium weapon the United States dropped on Nagasaki four years earlier.

The first [[Soviet atomic bomb project|Soviet atomic bomb]] in 1949 was a virtual carbon copy of “[[Fat Man]],” the implosion-type plutonium weapon the United States dropped on Nagasaki four years earlier.

The latter 1940s and early ’50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in American politics. Soviet expansionism in Europe, the [[Chinese Civil War]], and the 1950 outbreak of the [[Korean War]] shatterred the dreams of post-war cooperation with the Soviet Union. American policy dealing with this rapidly changing scene was often confused, naive, slow to respond, and contradictory. <ref>Carroll Quigley, ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 909. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>

The latter 1940s and early ’50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in American politics. Soviet expansionism in Europe, the [[Chinese Civil War]], and the 1950 outbreak of the [[Korean War]] shatterred the dreams of post-war cooperation with the Soviet Union. American policy dealing with this rapidly changing scene was often confused, naive, slow to respond, and contradictory. <ref>Carroll Quigley, ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 909. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref> In Korea, for example, the U.S. aided and armed [[South Korea]] to fight the spread of Soviet communism, while in China only two years earlier the U.S actually told the [[Nationalist Chinese]] government to do what the Soviet Union wanted — unite with the Soviet backed [[Chinese Communist Party]].  When Gen. [[Chiang Kai-shek]] refused, we U.S. disarmed him.<ref>''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn,  New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 15] pdf.</ref>

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