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Ep 125: Nick Bunker on America and the Early Cold War

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Nick Bunker, journalist and author of In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950, joins the show to talk about the first decade of the Cold War.

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• 01:36 Introduction

• 02:26 Countdown to war

• 05:17 Biden and Truman

• 09:05 A failure of American policy?

• 13:09 Present at the Creation

• 21:16 Stalin’s view of the world

• 25:50 Stalin and China

• 30:44 Developing nuclear thinking

• 32:39 Robert Taft

• 38:01 No choice but to defend Korea

• 46:44 NSC-68

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Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack

Follow the link to buy the book - In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950

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Nick Bunker, journalist and author of In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950, joins the show to talk about the first decade of the Cold War.

▪️

Times

• 01:36 Introduction

• 02:26 Countdown to war

• 05:17 Biden and Truman

• 09:05 A failure of American policy?

• 13:09 Present at the Creation

• 21:16 Stalin’s view of the world

• 25:50 Stalin and China

• 30:44 Developing nuclear thinking

• 32:39 Robert Taft

• 38:01 No choice but to defend Korea

• 46:44 NSC-68

Follow along on Instagram

Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack

Follow the link to buy the book - In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950

  continue reading

132 episodes

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