> Really?  Wasn't the duration of "The Cold War" pretty much concurrent
> with the period of the largest economic, technological, and
> scientific growth anywhere, ever?  Probably social and philosophical
> too; there's nothing quite like a contrasting opinion...   It seems
> to me that cold wars are significantly better than warm or hot wars,

I was thinking the same, and the US economy was booming as well,
though I'm not sure there's a causal relationship there, much less
which direction it runs in.
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