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Topic Overview and Background Information
Primary Sources
"We Must Keep the Labor Unions Clean": "Friendly" HUAC Witnesses Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney Blame Hollywood Labor Conflicts on Communist Infiltration:
"A Damaging Impression of Hollywood Has Spread": Movie "Czar" Eric Johnston Testifies before HUAC: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6443
"They Want to Muzzle Public Opinion": John Howard Lawson's Warning to the American Public: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6441
(Note: Part of Lawson's testimony is available in audio format at the site Authentic History:
"The World Was at Stake": Three "Friendly" HUAC Hollywood Witnesses Assess Pro-Soviet Wartime Films (Jack L. Warner, Louis B. Mayer, Miss Ayn Rand):
"House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)" Excerpt from "One Hundred Things You Should Know About Communism in the U.S.A." Reprinted from Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts From Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968, published in 1971
Mutual Assured Destruction Cold War Reference Library Ed. Richard C. Hanes, Sharon M. Hanes, and Lawrence W. Baker. Vol. 2: Almanac Volume 2. Detroit: UXL, 2004. p233-249.COPYRIGHT 2004 U*X*L, COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale
Primary Sources
Memorandum of Conversation, "Memorandum of Conference with the President" (October 29, 1957).
Letter from Stefan Possony to Walt Rostow, [Resumption of Nuclear Testing] (May 8, 1961).
National Security Decision Memorandum 16, "Criteria for Strategic Suffiency" (June 24, 1969).
"Mutual Deterrence" American Decades Primary Sources Ed. Cynthia Rose. Vol. 7: 1960-1969. Detroit: Gale, 2004. p258-261. COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale, COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale
Ronald Reagan's "Address to the Nation on the Meetings with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev in Iceland, October 13, 1986"
Topic Overviews, Background Information, and Biographies
Primary Sources
"Questions to be Considered regarding Possible U.S. Use of the Atomic Bomb to Counter Chinese Communist Aggression in Korea" (November 8, 1950)
Report to the National Security Council, "United States Courses of Action with Respect to Korea" (September 1, 1950)