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 The end of the fighting of World War II
did not bring the hoped for peace but instead a new kind of war, one fought with the
media, checkbooks, athletes and threats. The U.S. and the USSR would, for the next fifty
years, spend a good deal of their respective budgets building bigger and bigger weapons as
"deterrents" and competing to get more countries on their "side" in
this new war. By the mid eighties both sides were getting worn out and the world had
changed; no longer could it be divided so neatly into "our side" and 'their
side". The collapse of the Soviet Union brought an end to this five decade long
"war" and the world is still struggling with the aftermath.
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