At a time of great geopolitical turmoil, it is tempting to feel nostalgia for the Cold War — the long period following World War II when the United States and the Soviet Union held guns to one another’s heads. That neither side dared deploy their nuclear arsenal made for a kind of stability, a queasy stability, to be sure, founded on the fear of “mutually assured destruction.”
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