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-68Follow along  on InstagramFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War SubstackFollow the link to buy the book - In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950