Keeper File

摘要

President Eisenhower entered office convinced the USSR was seeking to bankrupt the US by fanning local wars against US allies. After a year, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced a major shift of policy. It was unwise, he said, to "permanently commit US land forces" in Korea, Europe, and elsewhere and "become permanently committed to military expenditures so vast that they lead to 'practical bankruptcy.'" Instead, the US would use a "deterrent of massive retaliatory power" to protect allies. He never directly mentioned nuclear weapons, but his point was made. Thus was born one of the most famous of Cold War terms-massive retaliation.