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Chilled By The Cold War
“If disaster be inevitable, make the best of it, is what Confucius is popularly supposed to have advised.
No doubt Confucius said nothing of the sort, but during the Cold War that sentiment seemed, to many of us, to be the guiding [...]
January 1, 2007, by John M. Robertson
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Planning For The Day After
The Cold War seemed to some of us a much hotter possibility in the 1950s. The United States and the Soviet Union were poised to hurl hundreds of nuclear warheads at each other. Rockets were accurate enough to target any city in Europe or North [...]






