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The date of the cold war is specific: The day the A-bomb destroyed Hiroshima on 06 August 1945. From that date onward, the US and the world knew that total wars would result in total annihilation of mankind (MAD-Mutally Assured Destruction), if everybody used nuclear weapons.

In 1949 the Soviets got the bomb; now MAD was a guaranteed reality. This remained the same until the Soviets collapsed in 1990.

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