Likelihood of General War with the Soviet Union up to the End of 1955

Document Title	Likelihood of General War with the Soviet Union up to the End of 1955
Reference	CAB 158/16
Document Date	18 July 1953
Conflicts	Cold War
Themes	Military Intelligence and Operations, Foreign Policy and International Relations
Regions	East Asia, Europe, Middle East
Countries	Austria, China, East Germany, Germany, Hungary, Indochina, Israel, Korea, Soviet Union, Turkey, USSR, Yugoslavia
Document Type	Memoranda, Reports
Organisations	Chiefs of Staff, Joint Intelligence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
People	Valentine Boucher, Anthony Buzzard, Charles Carstairs, Patrick Dean, Francis Fressanges, Eric Searight, Josef Stalin, Kenneth Strong

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threat of war with the USSR, contingency planning, predicting enemy intentions, Soviet foreign policy, Soviet government, politicians, civil unrest, occupied Germany, economy, Soviet satellite states, politics, atomic warfare, nuclear weapons, weapons development

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