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The Berlin Airlift Crisis and the Dilemma of Nuclear Weapons
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The Berlin Airlift Crisis of 1948 brought together President Truman and his advisors to discuss the possibility of using nuclear weapons in World War III, and revealed the dilemma of using them as a bluff or actually using them to deter the other side.
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