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When Russian Radar Mistook a Norwegian Scientific Rocket for a U.S. Missile, the World Narrowly Avoided Nuclear WarWhen the Cold War ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, it greatly reduced the threat of global nuclear war.
Summers said that the U.S. relationship with Russia at the start of the Cold War was dangerous and led to “catastrophic outcomes” like the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The early 1980s saw a resurgence of Cold War tensions to levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Amidst worsening relations between the West and the Soviet bloc, new nuclear weapons were ...
Kennedy’s political career played out through the Cold War ... of foreign policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the closest the world has come to nuclear war. On October 15, American ...
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