House to alert the president , he receives a third call. The whole thing had been a false alarm, a computer error at norad. The point about this is the scenario was very real, the stakes are very high in the cold war. 10 years later, something amazing happened. We have all seen images of the berlin wall opening in 1989 and we will get to see them again this fall as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of that momentous occasion. What happened over these years . How does the cold war and . How do we go from the National Security advisor getting called in the middle of the night to suddenly the whole thing ending peacefully . They were big changes, structural changes that happened in the world during this decade. The spiraling debt crisis in Eastern Europe and the discrediting of the communist economic model. A drop in the global price of oil, which spelled relief for the last and presented a severe obstacle for the soviet union in its effort to gain currency. You have the nascent Informa
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