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He was opposed to war but made war machines to pay the bills. Besides there's a certain logic to avoiding war by being more heavily armed than your neighbours.

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• Caprinicus 11y ago
  Without nukes the cold war would have probably been significantly warmer
  • digi_owl 11y ago
    Or never gotten off the ground in the first place...
    • douche 11y ago
      Because Stalin wouldn't have stopped at the Elbe, but pushed on to the Bay of Biscay?
      • digi_owl 11y ago
        By the time the bomb was tested, Nazi Germany had already surrendered (VE Day, May 8. Trinity test, July 16). And Stalin had already agreed to get involved in Asia. If he wanted to go all the way to the Atlantic, why did he stop at Elbe and spend time negotiating at Potsdam.
• simonebrunozzi 11y ago
  It was called "Pax Romana" in Augustus' times.