The Cold War

The Cold War between the Soviet Union, its satellites, and the United States and NATO allies, was a direct result of East / West polarization: an ironic consequence of the Allied victory over the Axis powers in World War II, which ended in 1945. The founding of the United Nations, the new nation state of Israel, the formation of the Soviet Bloc, the existence of Red China in Asia and the beginning of the Nuclear Age coincided …

…with the smaller number of aviation deaths. America may never be a perfectly safe place to be, but it is in comparison, relatively the safest as well as the freest. We may also remind ourselves of an old sage who cautioned about over reaction at another time of great American peril, during the Revolution: "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin