United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, better known as NSC68, was a 66-page top secret National Security Council (NSC) policy paper drafted by the Department of State and Department of Defense and presented to President Harry S. Truman on 7 April 1950. It was one of the most important American policy statements of the Cold War. In the words of scholar Ernest R. May, NSC68 "provided the blueprint for the militarization of the Cold War from 1950 to the collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s." NSC68 and its subsequent amplifications advocated a large expansion in the military budget of the United States, the development of a hydrogen bomb, and increased military aid to allies of the United States. It made the rollback of global Communist expansion a high priority. NSC68 rejected the alternative policies of friendly détente and containment of the Soviet Union.[1]
^Walter L. Hixson, "What Was the Cold War and How Did We Win It?" Reviews in American History (1994) 22#3 pp. 507-511 in JSTOR
Programs for National Security, better known as NSC68, was a 66-page top secret National Security Council (NSC) policy paper drafted by the Department of...
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administration quickly moved to escalate and expand its containment doctrine. In NSC68, a secret 1950 document, the National Security Council proposed reinforcing...
conversations, Eisenhower realized that strategic guidance set forth in NSC68 under the Truman administration was insufficient to address the breadth...
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indirectly calling for a policy to limit Communist Threat: NSC68. In accordance with NSC68, a report that stated that all communist activities were controlled...
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Defense James Forrestal in the late 1940s, then helped Paul Nitze write NSC68. He joined Laurance Rockefeller's family office in 1953, reviewing investments...
paper is NSC68. GAO also noted another type of directive called "NSC Actions", which were "numbered records of decisions that were reached at NSC meetings...
met in 1950, founded by Tracy Voorhees, to promote the plans proposed in NSC68 by Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson. It lobbied the government directly and sought...
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War, the authors of the then secret National Security Council Report 68 (NSC-68) proposed the US government undertake a massive permanent national economic...
president be authorized to use atomic bombs to prevent a nuclear attack. NSC68 of April 1950 opposed "a military attack not provoked by a military attack...
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big armament industry will continue to profit from warfare. Additionally, NSC68 can be used as a reference to understand U.S. President Harry S. Truman's...
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