Newton says he won the stalemate in Korea only by threatening Mao with nuclear war.
The threat was perfectly sincere.
Recall that the war happened in the first place only because Atchison publicly and clearly excluded Korea from the global perimeter within which America was pledged to contain communism.
And then Truman just freaked out in the event.
Though the charge was baseless, Churchill pushed IKE's anti-communist buttons to get him to depose Mossadegh and thus protect British oil interests in Iran, where Truman had refused his predecessor.
Nixon favored the move.
Newton reports IKE was delighted to do it.
To what extent did the Cold War happen because a lot of people found it a very compelling and exciting belief system?
Too much of America's leadership and permanent government came out of WW2 hooked on global crusade.
See the title of IKE's wartime memoirs.
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