> Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973 I read that and immediately thought "probably because their leaders were goddam

> Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973 I read that and immediately thought "probably because their leaders were goddamn idiots," then chastised myself for being so reductionist. Then I read the article and the answer is, literally, "because Nixon and Brezhnev were blasted on booze and pills."