The Cold War

Two superpowers hold the world hostage with nuclear weapons while fighting proxy wars across the globe.

The US-Soviet rivalry shaped global politics for nearly half a century. It produced the space race, Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the constant threat of nuclear annihilation.

Perspective

The Cold War's real legacy is the military-industrial complex and the surveillance state — structures built for the conflict that never went away after it ended. We defeated the Soviet Union but kept all the tools we built to fight it.