Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

And if balance-of-power thinking continues, ... proliferation elsewhere have been stabilizing rather than destabilizing—MAD certainly worked in preventing the Cold War from becoming hot.

Cold War: Improved Balance. 3 minute read. TIME. December 27, 1963 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... McNamara, impressive as usual, ticked off a few awesome facts of U.S. nuclear power: ...

Washington wanted to replace a European system of balance of power and spheres of influence with an effort to allow Europeans to freely ... The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav ...