"It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace...But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, commencement address, 1946

How did the invention of atomic weapons affect the development of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States?

"It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace...But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, commencement address, 1946

Which of the following events reflected the change in relations between countries that Oppenheimer predicted in the wake of the atomic bomb?