Welcome to Cold War 2.0.
After the Russkies detonated their first nuke in Aug 1949, we no longer had a monopoly on nuclear weapons. The NSC-68 report of 1950 will call for a massive increase in military spending as well as hydrogen bomb development. The Truman Administration almost tripled defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product between 1950 and 1953 (from 5 to 14.2 percent).
After the Russkies detonated their first nuke in Aug 1949, we no longer had a monopoly on nuclear weapons. The NSC-68 report of 1950 will call for a massive increase in military spending as well as hydrogen bomb development. The Truman Administration almost tripled defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product between 1950 and 1953 (from 5 to 14.2 percent).
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