PREVIEW: #COLDWAR: A two hour long conversation with author Nick Buner, and this excerpt identifies Paul Nitze who outlined how to conduct the Cold War -- the famous NSC #68 -- once it was confirmed that the Soviet Union had detonated an atomic bomb. Mu

PREVIEW: #COLDWAR:  A two hour long conversation with author Nick Buner, and this excerpt identifies Paul Nitze who outlined how to conduct the Cold War -- the famous NSC #68 -- once it was confirmed that the Soviet Union had detonated an atomic bomb.  Much more later, second hour of two.

1957 Operation PLUMBBOB

In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 by  Nick Bunker  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Fear-America-World-1950/dp/1541675541/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

In the Shadow of Fear describes the end of one era and the beginning of another. Joseph Stalin tested his first atomic bomb, Mao's army swept through China, and in America the age of FDR gave way to the beginnings of a new conservatism. An aggressive Republican Party, desperate to regain power, seized on rifts among its opponents, and Truman's program for universal health care and civil rights reform went down to defeat. The young Senator Joe McCarthy ambushed Truman and his party with a style of politics that aroused powerful emotions and deepened division. On the eve of the Korean War, a new mood of anger in the nation left many Americans calling in vain for a return to consensus.