ABSTRACT

The Cold War came to an end in 1990 and, as a result, is not even a memory for at least 2 billion people across the world. As new generations emerge, it becomes, at best, an interesting sideline of history, even if there remains a residual awareness of the dangers of the nuclear arms race. Even so, one of the persistent themes that has long survived that era is that nuclear weapons kept the peace, with the superpower arsenals being the ultimate deterrent.