NSC-68 was a sweeping analysis that would become one of the most influential documents in American history. It would guide and define United States foreign policy for the next twenty years. Seeing the containment of Soviet expansionism and the hydra-headed Communist threat as the paramount concern of American statecraft, the highly classified fifty-eight-page paper advocated, among other things, a dramatic increase in the military budget of the United States, the development of the hydrogen bomb, and expanded military aid to allies, satellites, and puppet states around the world. Above all,
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