Question

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

Answer 1

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?

Answer 2

Cold War is a term to describe the state of conflict, tension, and rivalry that existed between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, from the mid-1940's to the 1990s.