Twenty years after nuclear bombs leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US and Soviet Union were deep in the Cold War. Tensions were high; while the Soviets had the Americans outgunned in terms of conventional arms, the US had a vastly superior store of nuclear power. However, due to President Eisenhowers New Look security policy, any and all forms of Soviet aggression would be met with massive retaliation, meaning a swift nuclear response that could end scores of lives. …
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