>The Cold War seemed to set humanity back by a many decades compared to what, everyong holding hands and singing kumbaya under the watchful eye of the american

>The Cold War seemed to set humanity back by a many decades compared to what, everyong holding hands and singing kumbaya under the watchful eye of the american hegemony? We've been "catching up" since the 90's and, well, look around. The only bad thing about the bomb is people freaking out about atomic power by association.