Eisenhower helped shape the conventionalization of nuclear weapons

"According to the State Department history, on the same day that Eisenhower met with White House reporters in the Executive Office Building, Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, “informed [White House press secretary James] Hagerty that Dulles had checked with him before making this statement and that ‘he [Strauss] was all for it.’ Strauss reportedly told Hagerty that ‘we wanted to show our enemies [the mainland Chinese] that we now deal with A-bombs as conventional weapons.’”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/16/eisenhower-defends-use-of-nuclear-weapons-march-16-1955-1224003