Episode Two follows NATO through four decades of nuclear brinkmanship and its dramatic transformation in the nineteen nineties. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Berlin Wall, the alliance maintained an uneasy peace through mutually assured destruction and massive military buildups. When the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO faced an existential question: what now? The answer came in the Balkans, where ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo pulled the alliance into its first combat missions. Through Operation Deliberate Force and the controversial bombing of Yugoslavia, NATO evolved from regional defense pact to interventionist force, establishing precedents for humanitarian warfare that would reshape international relations and spark fierce debate about sovereignty.
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