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Their fears were of what the Kremlin men would do to the people around them, what the investigators would do to them while trying to combat subversion, depression, and a massive loss of jobs.

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America was just coming out of WWII and saw the Soviet Union emerging as a super power. If Communist forces were allowed to spread and expand their power may exceed that of the United States. This frightened Americans because their political systems were fundamentally different, meaning that conflict would be inevitable. Also, the Russians had acquired information through a spy and had developed nuclear weapons. Russians had demonstrated their distrust for the United States, and were prepared to use their bombs on Americans.

However, the USA had demonstrated distrust for the USSR as well, so the Soviets developed a nuclear missile in self-defense. Moscow was the USA's next nuclear target. Luckily, the USSR physicists and engineers proved to be the best in the world, making the Soviet Union's military the best in the world.

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Most ordinary Americans biggest fear in the cold war was if the soviets would send nuclear warheads to Cuba for Castro to equip with nuclear missiles to start launching them to big cities of the US. Also others were concerned of how many Cubans the US. let come into the US. and if they were in a plan to destroy the US. from the inside

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The US feared Nuclear attacks from Russia and the start of World War 3
Americans were afraid that a nuclear bomb would hit the US during the cold war.

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Seeing Mushroom Clouds over their cities; which meant that someone finally pushed those buttons!

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