You know this is an apples and oranges comparison. If you weren’t so busy White Knighting for Trump on this you'd see that.
If you were a bit older, you would grasp how big a deal the Cold War, was.
School kids ducked under desks for years, concerned over nuke bombs. My town had a Nike base nearby, which Scout groups visited.
I served in Germany during it.
I wrote a graduate paper, on the eonomy of West and East Germany.
I remember how moved I was when the Wall came down.