Day 1,349: brinkmanship

The first 15 years of the American-Soviet cold war featured a terrifying mixture of brinkmanship and near-catastrophic mistakes, until the Cuban missile crisis prompted a revival of diplomacy.

How to avoid war over Taiwan

Artwork of the day 
Brink
Adolph Gottlieb
Date: 1959
Style: Abstract Expressionism

Word of the day 
brinkmanship: the activity, especially in politics, of trying to get what you want by saying that if you do not get it, you will do something dangerous

Quote of the day
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“Tell me what this means," Dax said. "I'm a busy woman with a ship to run and a crisis to handle and I've surrounded myself with smart, dedicated people for the sole purpose of interpreting unintelligible squiggles for me.”
― Una McCormack, Brinkmanship