McCarthyism Reconsidered?
The release of Soviet documents in the wake of the USSR's collapse has proven, undeniably, that a small number of American communists were, in fact, spying for the Soviet Union. Those secrets did help the Soviets to develop their nuclear weapons programs, and they surely would've been used against the United States if the two countries had gone to war.
So, should the reality of communist espionage cause us to reassess our views of McCarthyism in America?
