jan 20, 1953 - Dwight D Eisenhower becomes the President of the United States of America

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"Truman left office in January 1953, and Stalin left life two months later. Dwight D Eisenhower…thought that it ought to be possible to include nuclear weapons among those means. He came to the presidency unpersuaded that the nature of warfare had fundamentally changed, and during the final months of the Korean War he repeatedly pushed his military advisors to find ways in which the US might use both strategic and recently developed tactical nuclear weapons to bring the fighting to an end. (Gaddis 2006, p. 63).

Eisenhoweer…at once the most subtle and brutal strategist of the nuclear age...To rule out nuclear use altogether would be to invite a non-nuclear war that the West could not win. (Gaddis 2006, p. 66-67).

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