Morgenthau’s Animus dominandi view on human nature explains that both US and USSR were driven by deep power ambitions for their own interest. Stalin aimed to consolidate the existing communist states in Europe and proliferate communism further to Asia and Africa while Truman through Containment policy focused on restricting the communist expansion while ensuring that Marshall Plan functions in salvaging Europe’s economy which ultimately intended to align with US’ economic and political interest. States’ military force became the most important factor in national security. The Cold War became a concatenation of intimidation and aggravation using increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapon.After the 1960 U-2 incident, US declared Massive Retaliation Doctrine which stated the policy of responding to major soviet attacks with massive retaliation response. Soviet further aggravate by conducting largest ever bombast by detonating “Tsar Bomba” over Novaya Zemlya off norther Russia.(ICAN,n.d) Meanwhile, other countries such as Britain, France and China equipped themselves with nuclear weapons in attempts to prepare themselves in the volatile politics. Finally, world faced the brink of full-scale nuclear war during the Cuban Missile
Morgenthau’s Animus dominandi view on human nature explains that both US and USSR were driven by deep power ambitions for their own interest. Stalin aimed to consolidate the existing communist states in Europe and proliferate communism further to Asia and Africa while Truman through Containment policy focused on restricting the communist expansion while ensuring that Marshall Plan functions in salvaging Europe’s economy which ultimately intended to align with US’ economic and political interest. States’ military force became the most important factor in national security. The Cold War became a concatenation of intimidation and aggravation using increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapon.After the 1960 U-2 incident, US declared Massive Retaliation Doctrine which stated the policy of responding to major soviet attacks with massive retaliation response. Soviet further aggravate by conducting largest ever bombast by detonating “Tsar Bomba” over Novaya Zemlya off norther Russia.(ICAN,n.d) Meanwhile, other countries such as Britain, France and China equipped themselves with nuclear weapons in attempts to prepare themselves in the volatile politics. Finally, world faced the brink of full-scale nuclear war during the Cuban Missile