Four Years That Changed the World: Why Didn't No One Press the Red Button During the Cold War?

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• IRENE HDEZ.

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  @IreneHVelasco

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Wednesday, 20 January 2021 - 22:47

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• History.

  Thirty years of the treaty that buried the Cold War

• The war of the future.

  flamethrower drones, sentry robots ... and not a single human

On February 24, 1989, at dawn, thousands

of Warsaw Pact

tanks

enter

West Germany

from the

Baltic

.

Initially, the western armed forces managed to keep the enemy under control despite the flood of refugees.

The Kremlin then resorts to the use of poison gas against Great Britain and in northern Germany.

On March 5, the allied forces begin to crumble and NATO authorizes the use of tactical nuclear weapons for the first time.

The Soviets, for their

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