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On the whole, the Cold War, like war in general, was hugely destructive, however, if I want to I can find some good results. The Cold War was the major reason for the competition between the US and the USSR known as the space race, which resulted in the moon landing in 1969. Perhaps without the Cold War as a motivation, we would never have gone to the moon. Of course, you might also argue that going to the moon was a stunt which did not change the human condition on Earth, however, that is not really the case. The space program was a fundamentally important source of scientific progress in many fields, such as computer science, which has proved to be of tremendous importance. All sorts of important technical problems had to be solved, to make possible the successful moon landing. So, something good was accomplished.

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