Re-Discussion on the Reasons for the Relaxation of Export Control Policy by the Coordinating Committee in 1954
In 1950s,the United States,together with Western Europe and Japan,set up the"Coordinating Com-mittee"to control the export items to the Soviet Union and implement the economic cold war against the Soviet Union.In 1954,the Coordinating Committee suddenly relaxed the export control.Scholars at home and abroad have analyzed the specific reasons from many angles,but few have noticed the influence of the hydrogen bomb exploded by the Soviet Union in 1953.It should be noted that the global export control system of the United States was to control nuclear items,especially to curb the production and development of Soviet nuclear weapons.The explosion of the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb fundamentally questioned the actual effect of export control and the necessity of controlling conventional weapons,and even directly shook the cornerstone of export control in Western Europe--the US security guarantee for Western Europe.Combined with other factors,Britain and other countries were forced to save themselves by changing from"isolating East from West in political and economic exchanges"into"strengthening political and economic exchanges between East and West".