Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

A scantily clad woman relaxes in a hot tub, a sense of mortal peril builds.

She's about to be pounced upon by Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.

We take a look at the kind of horror and delights that await as the classics go out of copyright.

And usually mixing deadly weapons in beer is a bad idea, but competitive extrawers do

it all the time.

Our correspondent heads to Wisconsin to investigate one of America's most heavily bearded pastimes.

First up though.

During the Cold War, America and the Soviet Union engaged in an unprecedented arms race.

Tens of thousands of nuclear warheads were produced.

Nuclear explosions are caused by weapons such as H. Bombs or Atom Bombs.

From the 1950s through the 80s, TV ads warned of a day of reckoning.

The heat and blast is so severe that it can kill and can destroy buildings for up to five

miles from the explosion.

But despite some close calls, Doomsday never came.

Tentative steps toward arms control began after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

But it was not until the collapse of the Berlin Wall in the end of the Cold War that big

cuts in nuclear stockpiles were made.

In 1994, then President Bill Clinton convinced a post-Soviet Ukraine to eliminate Soviet nuclear

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