Zusammenfassung der Ressource
NSC-68 (1950)
- What was it?
- A top secret national
security council objective
- Written by Nitze
under presidency of
Truman
- Written in the
aftermath of the
decision to build
an atomic bomb
- Declassified
in 1977
- Aims/content
- Outlined the national
security strategy of the
US at the time
- Analysed the capabilities of the
Soviet Union and the USA from
military, economic, political and
psychological perspectives
- Portrayed
communism as an
evil and
calculating enemy
- Called for a
huge American
military build up