Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Robert Oppenheimer had urged that the H-bomb work be delayed; Eisenhower removed him from the agency and revoked his security clearance though he knew this would create fertile ground for the extremist McCarthy. Mideast and Eisenhower doctrine

Even before he was inaugurated Eisenhower accepted a request from the British government to restore the Shah to power. Completely missing out on the warfront left him depressed and bitter for a time despite being given the DistinguiDwight D. Eisenhowerd Service Medal for his work at home.

After World War II Eisenhower served as Army Chief of Staff under President Harry S. Presidents. Truman then assumed the post of President at Columbia University.