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Nov 13, 2009 · U.S. announces policy of “massive retaliation” against Communist aggressors. In a speech at a Council on Foreign Relations dinner in his honor, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces...
Massive retaliation was essentially a deterrent strategy based on the threat of a direct, unrestrained nuclear response of massive scale in case of communist aggression, possibly aimed at the very centres of the enemy’s economic life.
retaliation with nuclear weapons against an enemy's homeland the cornerstone of its national security policy.6 Contrary to most current references, massive retaliation was not just a doc-trine of strategic deterrence. This speech, entitled "The Evolution of Foreign Policy," was an attempt by the secretary of state to place American interna-
Anyone who thought of initiating nuclear war would henceforth need to consider the possibility of retaliation. The second development followed from the first. In an effort to extend its effective nuclear superiority, the United States produced thermonuclear bombs , based on the principles of nuclear fusion rather than fission , upon which the ...
President Eisenhower attempted to cut defense spending by investing in a system of " massive retaliation ," hoping that the prospect of "mutually-assured destruction" from a large nuclear arsenal would deter potential aggressors. The Doomsday Clock and the H-bomb.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, right, shown here with President Eisenhower in 1956, became identified with the doctrine of "massive retaliation." The New Look was the name given to the national security policy of the United States during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
rubric “massive retaliation.” It was also clear in the management of policy at the senior staff level, which Eisenhower entrusted to an NSC refashioned to reflect lines of command and authority familiar to him from his military days. While Wilson, McElroy, and Gates may not have enjoyed the prestige and influence of
