Challenge: Cold War Detente

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to end the Cold War with neither power being destroyed, or collapsing. Instead, the Cold War is just to... peter out. Both powers have to learn to grudgingly accept the existence of the other, and give up the arms race.

Also, Soviet system can't collapse. Can be reformed, i.e. become Market Socialist for example, but no shock economics this time.
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to end the Cold War with neither power being destroyed, or collapsing. Instead, the Cold War is just to... peter out. Both powers have to learn to grudgingly accept the existence of the other, and give up the arms race.


  • Kennedy survives and manages to work out detente
  • Nixon's detente manages to continue
  • Reagan and Gorbachev's detente continues and the USSR survives and democratizes, leading to an end of the Cold War.
 
Damn hard, each side makes a useful scapegoat to the other and likely by the time relations can be improved enough to define as petering out the USSR will be breaking up

Stalin dying 1945 and say Beria or Zhukov getting the job would have a chance at least, best nip it in the bud when possible
 
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