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NSC-68: A REPORT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, Naval War College Review, Vol. 27, No. 6 (May-June 1975), pp. 51-108. Skip to main content. Get support Help logging in Contact us. Log in. Register.
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After coordinating the writing of NSC-68, Nitze drafted the pivotal Gaither Report (1957), which warned of the catastrophic consequences of a Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. homeland.
NSC-68, a top-secret document drafted by a committee chaired by Paul Nitze, the new head of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, ...
Truman received NSC-68 on April 7, 1950. Two weeks later, he called Louis Johnson into his office and told him the economy-in-defense policy was dead. On June 25, the North Korean army spilled ...
NSC-68 was written as a call to action. But the crusading Cold Warrior mentality that it reflects thoroughly and durably infiltrated Cold War American society.
The National Security Strategy released last month by the White House may be the most significant U.S. foreign policy statement since NSC 68, the 1950 paper that codified the containment doctrine ...
NSC 68 was one of the most important documents of the early NSC, framing America’s response to the dawning of the nuclear rivalry between the United States and Russia.