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All entities must do if they are going to put you at war with them. and that is to dehumanize the other side. i suddenly saw this man as a human. >> the trip went well. there was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then on may 1, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers was shot down in the u-2. and that pretty much puts a halt to that relationship, it seemed, that your grandfather was building with khrushchev. >> yeah. what the u-2 allowed khrushchev to do, or forced him to do, was to really think hard about ...

If they are going to put you at war with them. and that is to dehumanize the other side. i suddenly saw this man as a human. >> the trip went well. there was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then on may 1, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers was shot down in the u-2. and that pretty much puts a halt to that relationship, it seemed, that your grandfather was building with khrushchev. >> yeah. what the u-2 allowed khrushchev to do, or forced him to do, was to really think hard about how much the soviets ...

If they are going to put you at war with them. and that is to dehumanize the other side. i suddenly saw this man as a human. >> the trip went well. there was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then on may 1, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers was shot down in the u-2. and that pretty much puts a halt to that relationship, it seemed, that your grandfather was building with khrushchev. >> yeah. what the u-2 allowed khrushchev to do, or forced him to do, was to really think hard about how much the soviets ...

There was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then, on may 1st, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers is shot down, and that pretty much puts a halt to this relationship, it seemed like your grandfather was building. >> what this allowed him to do, or forced him to do, was to really think hard about how much the soviets really wanted at that point. >> your grandfather didn't apologize. >> that's right. in the sense that he was made to feel he should apologize, this is probably a measure of the collapse of t...

Reaction of events. we're no longer in a bipolar world the way we were when, say, korean airliner 007 was shot down by the soviets in 1983. or when france's gary powers, the u-2 pilot flying an american spy aircraft was shot down by the soviets in 1960. in those cases, if you got the president of the united states and the secretary general of the soviet union on the phone, they could at least begin to ratchet things down. this is such a multidimensional situation that it is emblematic of the post-cold war world we're in. nina, i want to come to you on what's next and how both sides respond. kr...