OpEdNews - Quicklink: We Didn't Win the Cold War, We Survived It by Dumb Luck

Tag(s): Nuclear Arms Race; Nuclear Disarmament; Nuclear Powers; Nuclear Proliferation; Nuclear Weapon Agreements; War Nuclear; Warforce Nuclear
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We Didn't Win the Cold War, We Survived It by Dumb Luck

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'What winning the Cold War really meant,' writes Paul Woodward at War in Context, 'was that by luck rather than design, we didn't all get incinerated.' A courageous president 'would have championed a movement for global nuclear disarmament.' (Remembering, of course, that a 'courageous president' is a contradiction in terms.)

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We Won? by Roage on Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 at 5:30:03 PM