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The Negative Lessons of the 50s
The work of SSP actually made some recommendations that are still with us today, such as if you're going to actually execute containment. I certainly think the 50s had a democracy trying to get organized, a priest but Nick for for a competition. And so of course as you see people joining the consensus about the competition based on the assertive behavior of the Soviet Union at the time. There's definitely some things that today we regard as lunatic fringes like McCarthyism that don't represent the whole nature of the competition.