Are we living at the 'hinge of history'?
I'd argue the cold war was closer to the 'hinge of history'.  In fact on this very day 9/26 in 1983, a not very well known soviet lieutenant colonel prevented what would very likely have been all out atomic war.<p>In the grand scheme of things, everything that happened this year is probably minor in comparison to Petrov's decision.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...</a>