20 years later, wall’s fall signals triumph, progress
T WENTY years after the Berlin Wall ’s fall, portending the collapse of communism’s Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union , many probably find it incomprehensible that people used to worry that civilization might end instantly, "in a fiery hail of atoms,” as former Secretary of State James Baker recently wrote in Newsweek .
Things like "mutually assured destruction,” bomb shelters an...
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