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During a college history class, the professor asked what the organizations of NATO and the Warsaw Pact were.
I answered, "The two military superpowers that emerged after the Second World War formed up European countries within their spheres of influence to share defense pacts to watch their opponents and plan military attack and defense strategies. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the West, the Warsaw Pact for the Soviet satellite states in the East. The defense pacts resulted in the two nuclear superpowers vying against each others' European borders for decades WITHOUT A SHOT BEING FIRED. Two vast computerized nuclear battle-forces TOTALLY IMPOTENT! Each kept in check by fear of attacking without being destroyed by the nuclear retaliation of the other; each awaiting the time of MAXIMUM ADVANTAGE. The Cold War was the superpowers locked in a logical impasse." Yes, I misquoted the lines from the Doctor Who episode, "Destiny of the Daleks" with their war with the rasta robots, the Movellans. Fun stuff!
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