The current period, I'm quoting here from the current issue of foreign affairs, the current period is not a Cold War redux.

It is more dangerous.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Uncommon Knowledge Now.

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. The daughter of a pastor and a teacher,

Condoleezza Rice grew up in segregated Alabama, then went on to become the Secretary of State.

She now serves as Director of the Hoover Institution here at Stanford and is a member of the

ownership group of the Denver Broncos. Before we get to pesky little matters like the state of the world,

three-three season? Is it time for Broncos fans to abandon hope?

Oh, I just want to be four and three.

Let's take them one game at a time.

Okay, all right, good luck with the Saints. First question. From your article in the current

issue of foreign affairs, the current period is not a Cold War redux. It is more dangerous.

During the Cold War we had an opponent in the Soviet Union with massive conventional forces arrayed against Western Europe,

with a Navy that matched ours at least in numbers of surface vessels, and with 5,000 nuclear weapons pointed us, how could the current period possibly

be more dangerous?

Peter, we did not have real territorial conflict between us after the Berlin crisis and

certainly after the Cuban missile crisis. So for roughly almost 30 years with the

Soviet Union we lived in this kind of cold piece as it's been called.

Right. We could finish each other's sentences about nuclear deterrence.

We had created a whole way of thinking about accidental nuclear

war. But the more important point is that the Soviet Union was a military giant, but it was

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