What was the Cold War really about? Was it a war in the truest sense?

The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II.  Orwell understood it as a nuclear stalemate between “super-states”: each possessed weapons of mass destruction and was capable of annihilating the other.

Explanation: So yea it made sense for this War to start or otherwise we would have a Nuclear Warfare. Weird right?

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Before such a revolution can be effected, the senate, it is to be observed, must in the first place corrupt itself, must next corrupt the state legislatures; must then corrupt the House of Representatives; and must finally corrupt the people at large.