We aren't in that different a universe from the Cold War, unless someone's dismantled the thousands of nuclear weapons we point at eachother, and hasn't told me.
The worst thing about the Cold War ending is how everyone talks like the world has changed, yet it really hasn't.
For reference, the big cultural fear when I was young was terrorism and rogue states, and then around adulthood it was ISIS and the like. These things still exist, but the cultural focus here has shifted for a while.
It's no longer the decade of long-distance bombers running interceptor screens and anti-aircraft fire to deliver warheads directly to where they intend to bomb. It'll just be a series of bright re-entry streaks fanning out from an ICBM releasing it's cluster of warheads on your metro area.
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