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What it says on the tin. What would be the political fallout (both domestic and international) of a conventional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact? For the sake of argument, let's assume it was one similar to the one hypothesized in "Red Storm Rising": taking place sometime in the mid-80's (let's say, around 1986, shortly after Gorbachev came to power), and being a brief (let's say the summer of '86) conventional war fought almost entirely in Western Europe (primarily Germany, Norway, the North Sea and the North Atlantic), and ending in a cease-fire.

What would the treaty that follows look like? What affects would this have on Europe and the United States, politically, culturally, or socially?
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