Stalin Endorses War in Asia
Kim Il-sung Plans an Attack
Truman Consolidates US Commitments
Joseph McCarthy Sells the Politics of Fear
Paul Nitze Sounds the Tocsin
North Korea Drives South
Truman Reverses Policy
Douglas MacArthur Gambles and Wins
Mao Zedong Intervenes Massively
Peng Dehuai and Matthew Ridgway Fight to a Stalemate
George C. Marshall and Robert Lovett Guide a US Buildup
Dean Acheson Leads the Defense of Europe
Andrei Tupolev Creates a Strategic Bomber Force
Curtis LeMay Builds the Strategic Air Command
Igor Kurchatov Develops Soviet Nuclear Weapons
Walter Bedell Smith Reforms and Expands the CIA
Korea Transforms the Cold War.