Chaired by Paul Nitze, a joint commission of military and civilian advisers present NSC-68 to President Harry Truman. The report, which helped define American foreign policy during the first half of the Cold War, called for a massive rearmament across the world to protect friendly states. After the North Korean invasion of South Korea, President Truman acknowledged the communist threat and approved the report.
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