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Remembering ‘duck and cover’
Any of us who are old enough to remember black-and-white television, rotary-dial telephones and milk delivered to our doorsteps will remember when the United States was engaged in an arms race with the Soviet Union. The Cold War threatened to turn hot at almost any provocation. So, to prevent that event from happening, the Americans […]
Recalling world’s most dangerous moment
Conjure up memories of the Cold War. Those of us who are old enough to remember that time remember a sort of simpler time, with clearly defined and identifiable adversaries. The United States and the Soviet Union stared each other down across an ideological divide. An upcoming PBS special, “The Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men […]
A Public View 