Sentence examples for the atomic monopoly from inspiring English sources

First, the atomic monopoly was something of a bluff.

Confronted with the communist revolution in China and the end of the American atomic monopoly in 1949, the Truman administration quickly moved to escalate and expand the containment policy.

For with the American atomic monopoly — and the huge Soviet losses in the world war — that actual balance was never more favorable for the West than at the beginning of the cold war.

In 1949, Moscow detonated its first bomb, surprising Washington at the quick loss of what had been an atomic monopoly.

The result was that in 1945 46 the United States accounted for almost half the gross world product of goods and services and enjoyed a technological lead symbolized by, but by no means limited to, its atomic monopoly.

We Americans invented nuclear weapons; used them, and had a brief atomic monopoly.

Ginzburg later explained in an interview with Physics World, "We thought at the time that we were working to prevent a monopoly on the atomic bomb – Hitler's monopoly if he got the bomb before Stalin.

In the United States, growing fears of Soviet expansionism and a three-year monopoly of the atomic bomb encouraged a "get tough" approach in the Truman Administration.

He quickly had to come to terms with the end of the American nuclear monopoly; with information provided by its espionage networks in the U.S., the Soviet Union's atomic bomb project progressed much faster than had been expected, and they detonated their first bomb on August 29 , 1949

The years of the U.S. monopoly, however, were a time of disillusionment for American leaders, who discovered that the atomic bomb was not the absolute weapon they had first envisioned.

[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists].