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Article: Notes from the editors. (Cold War not yet over; includes brief obituaries of Lewis Fraad and Charles T. Yerkes) (Editorial)
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Has the Cold War ended? In one sense of course it has. The primary meaning of "war" is an armed conflict between two or more nations, or more generally, power centers. The war is called "cold" if the conflict stops short of shooting and killing. In this sense the relation that has existed during most of the second half of the twentieth century between the United States and its allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other is a classic (perhaps better the classic) case of cold war. It ended when the Soviet side threw in the towel in 1989-1990. Hardly anyone is likely to dispute this statement of the facts.
But the term war is used in other ...