Tom Nichols
Security,
The end of world…almost.
Every one of these crises could have resulted in a global conflagration. Earlier crises (such as the Berlin Blockade of 1948 or the Korean attack of 1950) could have led to war, but they took place before the superpowers developed huge stockpiles of nuclear-armed intercontinental missiles. Each crisis was eventually resolved in favor of peace, but in every case both sides relied on gambles, and survived as much by luck as by strategy.
An international “crisis” is the anxious space between peace and war. It is defined by three things: time, threat, and the …read more
Source: The National Interest
