Volume 45, Number 9 · May 28, 1998
Bad Blood
By Warren Zimmermann
The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
by Michael Ignatieff
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 207 pp., $24.95
[1] Even those without nostalgia for the cold war will admit that it had some moderating elements. For more than a half-century the character of the bi-polar Soviet-American confrontation protected Europe and North America from conflict. For the most part, violence and danger were relegated to regions where confrontation was not direct. The major fighting was in Asia, and never really threatened to escalate to global war. The only dangers of such escalation, apart from some heart-stopping moments around Berlin, were in Cuba, where Soviet Prime Minister Khrushchev tried to install nuclear weapons in 1962, and in the Middle East, when the United States and the Soviet Union went on nuclear alert following the 1973 Egyptian-Israeli war.
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