Did Communism Threaten America's Internal Security After World War II?

After evaluating the essays on this topic, I was convinced that communism did in fact threaten America's Internal Security After World War II. The Soviet Union was sending secret coded messages places that were fairly hard to figure out. When they were finally decoded, the war was over and there was really no need to decypher them to see if they were planning on something terrible. The disturbing thing about these messages was the fact that many U.S. government officials conciously maintained a relationship with the Sovite intelligence agencies and passed on information to the Sovite Union that had damaged American interests. With that scare, there was also the scare of the if the Soviet Union was going to use nuclear powers. And there were atomic spies. They betrayed the American atomic secrets to the Soviets and allowed the Soviet Union to develop atomic weapons several years sooner and at a very much lower cost than it otherwise would have been. Stalin knew about this espionage and it assured the Soviet Union of quickly breaking the American "atomic monopoly." The Soviet's possession of an atomic bomb had a psychological consequence. When the Soviets launched this weapon, America realized Stalin had more power. These things and more cause my opinion to support the fact that communism threatened America's internal security.