In the early years of the cold war united states foreign policy was dedicated to containing
a. fascism.
b. nuclear weaponry.
c. communism.
d. totalitarianism.

In the early years of the Cold War, The foreign policy of the United States was to contain nuclear weaponry - B.

The main thing about the Cold war was that the United States of America wanted for a reduction in total nuclear weaponry during this 'war' - this also then lead to increasingly worse relationships between the two political sides, where the US represented democracy and the USSR communism.