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How did Americans perceive the threat posed by the Soviets and nuclear war in the 1950s?
They believed that a nuclear war was impossible.
They believed that the threat of war was real.
They believed that a war was unlikely.
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They believed that the threat of war was real.
Evidence: after the Soviet atomic test (1949) and the Korean War (1950–53), Americans lived with widespread fear of nuclear attack—duck‑and‑cover drills, fallout‑shelter building, civil‑defense campaigns, McCarthy‑era anti‑Communist hysteria, and heavy reporting on the arms race and H‑bomb development all reflect a sense that the Soviet threat and the possibility of nuclear war were immediate and serious.
Evidence: after the Soviet atomic test (1949) and the Korean War (1950–53), Americans lived with widespread fear of nuclear attack—duck‑and‑cover drills, fallout‑shelter building, civil‑defense campaigns, McCarthy‑era anti‑Communist hysteria, and heavy reporting on the arms race and H‑bomb development all reflect a sense that the Soviet threat and the possibility of nuclear war were immediate and serious.
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