February 1946: a feverish diplomat in a freezing Moscow embassy answered a bureaucratic question with five thousand words that would organize the next half-century. He did not invent the Cold War — he gave it a diagnosis, a name, and a single word: contain.
February 1946: a feverish diplomat in a freezing Moscow embassy answered a bureaucratic question with five thousand words that would organize the next half-century. He did not invent the Cold War — he gave it a diagnosis, a name, and a single word: contain.
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