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WAY BACK IN 1990, the Washington-based United States Institute of Peace, one of many American "think tanks," held a colloquium with then still Soviet historians on a topic that is still relevant today: How the Cold War began, what kept it from turning "hot," and what lessons are we to draw from it all. Elspeth Rostow made the unexpected remark that the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to the atomic bomb. I don't recall whether she was a member of the American delegation or was simply accompanying her spouse Walt Rostow (author of the famous "The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto" who during the Vietnam War was President Johnson's special assistant for national security affairs and, incidentally, a fierce "hawk")
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