remember 1989-90?

[WalterMitty]

the fall of communism?
the crumbling of the berlin wall?
the velvet revolution?
the end of the cold war?

the world just seemed so peaceful.

is it just me or is the world now more dangerous than it was at any point during the cold war?

[WalterMitty]

is it just me or is the world now more dangerous than it was at any point during the cold war?

As htmldon said, I find the threat of having some lunatic fly a plane into a building to be, while still worrying, much less scary than the thought of, you know, global annihilation of the human race in a full-scale nuclear war.

are you saying we dont have to worry about nuclear terrorism?

[WalterMitty]

are you saying we dont have to worry about nuclear terrorism?

except terrorism existed back then too.

yes but the problem has clearly grown worse.

we also have a bigger problem with rogue states and weapons of mass destruction (ie north korea and iran).  those states arent held back by the prospect of mutual assured destruction, as the ussr was.