Description This lesson provides an overview of how the United States and the Soviet Union both shaped literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean during the Cold War.

During the Cold War, SIPRI put a great deal of stock in official Soviet statistics and used them as the basis of its analysis and comparison with the U.S. defense budget with few to no changes.

As the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States had to adjust significantly to new and dangerous threats to our national security.