scholars gather from around the world to take part in the annual over institution workshop on the children regimes directed by over fellow paul gregory. the scholars are here today in the audience. is presently of what a keynote defense of the workshop program. robert service will not address us on the end of the cold war. [applause] >> thank you very much, mark, for that very generous introduction. what i want to talk about today is the subject of my new book, which is about a war that never became a war. it's about of cold war rather than a hot water. although it was a cold war, in the sense that there was the threat of military conflict throughout its existence, it was the non-war, the single non-war, the third world war which could have obliterated human and animal life on the