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Also remember Gore Vidal said that the US became a National Security state in 1948...That with the advent of Nuclear weapons and their potential for destroying mankind....The US ....World could no longer afford to have a WILD CARD occupying the office where so much power resided.

further the NAtional security State was required to keep certain information secret from the public it served, because of the gravity of situation it was faced with...Nuclear Weapons.

That taken into context one can understand why McArthur was sacked, and the Vietnam war was fought in the way it was...Both N Korea and China as well as Vietnam were client states of the USSR...and both the USSR and USA wanted to avoid confrontation at all risks.....because of Nuclear Weapons...

It should well be remembered that in 1964 China became the 3rd real player ( The US and Brits had them) with Nukes...and the result was that Khrushev was outsted from power one month after the Chinese exploded a bomb. (The Chinese with Nuclear capability was no longer reliant on the USSR to provide a Nuclear shield and could go thier own way). Also with the advent of the chinese joining the club it meant that the USSR was also at risk form the Chinese as well as the USA...

France, Israel and then India then aqquired them.....It is ilittle known that the Indians developed their weapons in response to the Chinese and the Pakistanis in response to India...