12 Jan 1954 Jahr - Announced policy of 'massive retaliation'

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US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, announced the policy of ‘massive retaliation’. It stated that massive retaliation must exist as a back-up threat in order to deter communist aggression. If US resistance was restricted to manpower alone, then a potential aggressor might be tempted to attack.​

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