Petrov

>Let me just form and international militaty alliance agaisnt you and what you stand for
>Hey muh stop puting tanks near the border here our tanks are you fucking commie warmmongers

>Russians started the cold war

>holl up, lemme just nuke japs to spook you and form NATO
>we dindu naffin

>Hurr Durr why wasn't the US friends with an ideology diametrically opposed to their entire way of life and economic system Stalin was a good boi he dindu nuffin
You guys are retarded. The US realized it fucked it because of Lend-lease giving those Russkie savages industrial capability and realized by at least the Yalta conference that Russia wasn't going to stop at the Iron curtain. Not to mention the (((Rosenbergs))) selling our secrets to them for some (((reason))) forced the US to massively expand its nuclear program. Also a large part of our missile development was initiated from false Intel given by Gehlen, former head of intelligence in the Ostfront. After the fall of the USSR (guess who wins in the end commie faggots) we found that a majority of Gehlen's Intel was filled with half truths and outright bullshit so if you're looking for a scapegoat that won't make you look like a retard go with him.

Tbh I'd always heard the responsibility was split between the Russians(who stole plans for and began producing nukes) and the US contractors in charge of building missiles(who overstated the threat of Soviet nuclear capabilities and got the US to start buying a fuckton more missiles).

source on the rosenberg shit?

He wasn't the final guy who, in good consciousness, refused to push the button, just a guy doing his job per instructions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg?wprov=sfla1
Go to "later developments"

>My late wife for 10 years knew nothing about it. 'So what did you do?' she asked me. 'Nothing. I did nothing.

But wasn't his job to report possible launches like that to his superiors?