History is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood.
— Carl Jung
In 1985, a tapestry of Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica was unveiled at the entrance to the Security Council of the United Nations in New York. Amid the unresolved, prospectively unlimited conflict of the Cold War, it was a mute, poignant reminder of the reality of total war.
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