The Cold War
by John Lewis Gaddis · first published 2005
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Many will remember what it was like to live under the shadow of the Cold War, the ever-present anxiety that at some point, because of some miscalculation or act of hubris, we might find ourselves in the middle of a nuclear holocaust—a war that , if we survived it, would change our lives and our planet forever. How did this terrible conflict arise? How did wartime allies so quickly become deadly foes after 1945 and divide the world into opposing camps, each armed to the teeth? And how, suddenly, did it all come to an end? Only now that the Cold War has been over for fifteen years can we begi
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…favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" My favorite ones so far include the many offshoots of natural selection and evolution, plus all of the stuff about the brain. I recently finished The Cold War: A New History, a great primer to how we got to the geopolitical situation we are in now (at least the major western/eastern powers), and A Short History of Nearly Everything, which was an awesome birds-eye…
on “Ask HN: What Books Are You Reading?” ↗…in the butt, even aside from the problem of a democracy where a minority is winning more national elections than the majority due to the Senate and Electoral College. I suggest folks re-read about the Cold War. A good short one with the basics is The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (there's many, many other topics in that series). Why? Because the Cold War is a direct result of diverging histories, needs,…
on “Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends” ↗