Unexpectedly, this article contains one of the best descriptions of the Cold War that I've ever seen: > A decade earlier, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ha

Unexpectedly, this article contains one of the best descriptions of the Cold War that I've ever seen: > A decade earlier, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had said that the Cold War would be “unending”: “We must learn to conduct foreign policy without escape and without respite. This condition will not go away.” Which was perhaps just as well, given that no one could seem to formulate an endgame for it that didn’t leave the world a heap of irradiated ashes.