Russia in Global Affairs

Churchill provided the basic signposts of an emerging new era that served as a guideline for the architects of the Cold War in the United States and the U.K.: a bipolar division of the world, the central role of the Anglo-American axis in the Western system, ideological confrontation with the Soviet Union, and the pursuit of military supremacy based on nuclear power. This new strategy appeared in sharp contrast with the guidelines that had prevailed in Washington just a year before.