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Well, the US and the USSR pointed nukes at each other... But maybe reframe the cold war (korea, vietnam, contras, etc), as engagements in a long war (which har

by pnathan 12y ago

Well, the US and the USSR pointed nukes at each other... But maybe reframe the cold war (korea, vietnam, contras, etc), as engagements in a long war (which harmonizes with at least some of the mentalities going on in that period). I think then the thesis of "no war" vanishes.

mikeash 12y ago
The Cold War wasn't so much "no war" as it was nearly constant, ongoing, small-scale war. Terrible for those involved, but overall considerably more peaceful than the norm. It didn't really change after the Cold War ended, either. The war landscape from the 1990s through today looks much the same.