People that lived during the Cold War, what was it like? (lemmy.world)

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Did you live in constant fear of being nuked? Or was it more chill most of the time?

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Russia never lost the ability to conduct a large-scale nuclear strike, so in the sense that Moscow or Washington could trigger a large-scale nuclear war, things haven’t really functionally changed.

Well after the cold war there was (was) no major issue or ideology that would have sparked a war, there was during the cold war.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 8 months ago

I don't think that it was ever likely that either party was going to haul off and attack the other on ideological grounds.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 months ago

Actually we had a lot of war hawks still at this point, willing to “win” before we couldn’t.

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