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Why did Truman choose not to use nuclear weapons in the Korean War

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Truman declined to rule out using nuclear weapons to prevent South Korea from being overrun by Chinese communist troops. China had recently joined North Korea in a fierce counterattack on United Nations military forces, most of them American

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Truman declined to rule out using nuclear weapons to prevent South Korea from being overrun by Chinese communist troops.

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