This once-classified paper was a major milestone-perhaps the major milestone-in postwar US defense planning. Better known as "NSC-68," it provided the intellectual basis for what became a vast military buildup to counter communist aggression. President Truman had been shocked by the Berlin blockade and Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. In late 1949, he faced two more stunners-Soviet explosion of an atomic weapon and Mao Zedong's communist conquest of China. NSC-68's purpose, said Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson, was to "bludgeon the mass mind" of government to respond. The author, Paul H. Nitze, was a Cold War legend (obituary, p. 17). He painted a grim picture of the threat and was vindicated on June 25, 1950, when communist forces attacked South Korea.
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机译：这篇曾经分类的论文是一个重要的里程碑，也许是战后美国国防计划中的一个重要里程碑。它以“ NSC-68”而著称，为反共侵略的大规模军事建设提供了知识基础。杜鲁门总统对柏林的封锁和苏联对东欧的统治感到震惊。 1949年末，他又面临着两次震惊，包括苏联爆炸的原子武器和毛泽东对中国的征服。国务卿阿奇森（Dean G. Acheson）表示，NSC-68的目的是“愚弄政府的大众意识”以作出回应。作者保罗·尼采（Paul H. Nitze）是冷战的传奇人物（ob告，第17页）。 1950年6月25日，共产主义力量袭击了韩国，他证明了这一威胁的严峻形势。
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