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What's a cold war? A historian explains how rivals US and Soviet Union competed off the battlefield

  • Written by Robert J. McMahon, Professor of History, The Ohio State University
imageSoviet leader Nikita Krushchev, left, met with U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Vienna in 1961.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Imagesimage

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