ABSTRACT
In the physical realm, impact can be computed theoretically by factors of mass, velocity, and angle of incidence, or one can take its practical measure by comparing the state of an object to what it was before the collision. The first sixteen years of coexistence between the United States and the Soviet Union were marked by distant animosity. The two governments were not in official communication and not very much in each other’s way after a brief US involvement in a hapless military intervention ending in 1919. The process of distinguishing is integral to devising strategies, to conducting wars, and to every undertaking to establish conditions of peace. World War II renewed the urge to arrange preventive measures. The Soviet Union’s losses in havoc sustained and casualties suffered were awesome and disproportionate.
