Cold War's Heavy Cost

Edward Taylor (Op-Ed, 14th May) insisted that "weapons work during the Cold War did not put a particularly heavy burden on the US economy," and "In any case, the Cold War is different. There is no sacrifice. " The word "extraordinary weight" is very subjective, in fact, expenditure on US nuclear weapons and weapons related programs in 1940 and 1996 consumed approximately $ 5.5 trillion in adjusted 1996 dollars did. It accounts for 29% of military spending and 11% of federal government expenditure

Regarding the lost life, the United States and the Soviet Union did not fight on the battlefield, but hundreds of thousands of the US and Soviet citizens were exposed to radioactive and toxic by-products of nuclear weapons production and testing in their country. Victims of these activities are just beginning to quantify

It is difficult to know the influence the Cold War has on people in Russia for many years. However, America paid a lot. When a country has an active internationalist interventionist foreign policy, its political power often flows to the central government and flows to the executive branch within the central government. Recently, the establishment of "empire president" in the United States is neither quirky nor accident, it is a natural product of the Cold War. From the Imperial President, the Constitutional Checking and Balance system lost direction, and Watergate incidents, organizational protection, and spike growth, parliamentary incompetence and decline were almost inevitable. That is why George Washington is a very sophisticated person who advises Americans to avoid intertwining from foreign countries; so Americans who have won the freedom are always people who love peace.

During the Second World War and the Cold War, the secret of the success of the United States is that the country has made intense efforts with its economy. In the Second World War, the United States became a democratic army and passed the Axis. The country is fighting its own industrial forces to organize its army and organize 16 million troops from 450,000 to equip allies. During these two target Cold War, the United States could not defeat the Soviet Union militarily, so we built a containment system to fulfill its full role in the long-term competition of economic and political systems.