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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. As tensions rose, there was a growing fear that the Soviets could invade and occupy all of Western Europe. In 1949, the Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon and ended the U.S monopoly on atomic weaponry.