The Thumb\u2014Power: America and the U.S.S.R. preserve an uneasy accord, each testing the other\u2019s will within well-defined limits. No major nuclear war has taken place. Soviets are more like Americans (and Americans more like Soviets) than anyone else.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u2013read the rest here<\/a>; Tim Powers\u2019s answer sounds eerily like the kind of thing my grandfather would have written! Link is probably via Jesse Walker. And I made the case in that final sentence here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Thumb\u2014Power: America and the U.S.S.R. preserve an uneasy accord, each testing the other\u2019s will within well-defined limits. No major nuclear war has taken place. Soviets are more like Americans (and Americans more like Soviets) than anyone else. \u2013read the rest here; Tim Powers\u2019s answer sounds eerily like the kind of thing my grandfather would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114,85,44,36],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-the-day-the-world-turned-day-glo","tag-the-retro-future-is-ours-comrade","tag-the-russian-soul","tag-things-that-sound-like-they-come-from-tim-powers-novels"],"yoast_head":"\n
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