East and West, communism and capitalism, the USSR and the US. The Cold War was a conflict defined by contrasts, but among the duplicity of an unseen conflict, a middle point was found.
Duncan Richter, Dylan Suzanne and Robert M. Martin discuss the logic behind the Cold War and the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction. To many the idea of mutually assured destruction never made ...
Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...
Key events in the superpowers' attempts Danger of Mutually Assured Destruction Détente and the economic cost of the arms race Nuclear proliferation ...