Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Compare and Contrast
1962: The Cuban missile crisis in October makes the threat of global nuclear war seem an imminent possibility.
Today: The Cold War over, the United States no longer faces the consolidated military strength of a communist rival. The Berlin Wall, a powerful symbol of Cold War division, fell in 1989. The fear of nuclear war is no longer as great, although there exists widespread concern about the spread of nuclear technology to terrorist groups or so-called "rogue states."
1962: Cold War competition with the Soviet Union...
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