The Cold War: Back By Popular Demand
"There was an equilibrium and a fear of mutual destruction. And in those days one party was afraid to make an extra step without consulting the other. And this was certainly a fragile peace and a frightening one, but as we see today, it was reliable enough. Today it seems that the peace is not so reliable." - Russian President Vladimir Putin, February 12, 2007 It has been over 17 years since the Berlin Wall fell. Many of today's college students were still in diapers at the time. Some of us were old enough to watch it crumble. And as we watched democracy triumph over tyranny, as the masses of people used sledgehammers, bulldozers, and their bear hands to tears down the wall that had separated a repressed people from a free world, we hoped that new generations might not have to live under the daily threat of nuclear holocaust. ...
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