The Cold war. Brrr.

The Cold war, one of the only wars without real fighting, was one of the scariest times in all of America's pristine history. The soviet union and the United states both had their fingers over the big red button, waiting for someone to fire the first shot. The Cuban missile crisis and the U-2 incident are great examples of major events during this time in history, where the only thing that was assured, was mutually assured destruction.