Currently Reading
Aug. 12th, 2022 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarpsychedelicCurrently reading The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis, a good, concise overview of the events of 1947-1989.
If Watergate marked my childhood, then the Cold War and its end characterized my teen years. I remember newspaper headlines about SALT talks and national security under the threat of nuclear war.
And I can still clearly remember the astonishment and joy when the Berlin Wall fell and the countries behind the Iron Curtain became democracies. Exciting times.
If Watergate marked my childhood, then the Cold War and its end characterized my teen years. I remember newspaper headlines about SALT talks and national security under the threat of nuclear war.
And I can still clearly remember the astonishment and joy when the Berlin Wall fell and the countries behind the Iron Curtain became democracies. Exciting times.