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Article: The Cold War in Hindsight; After a brush with calamity in 1983, both sides moved away from confrontation.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 6, 2008
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FOR THE SOUL OF MANKIND
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
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