It was a Third World because it rejected the notion of a world divided into two, a world in which only the United States and the Soviet Union counted and everybody else had to declare for one or the...

It was a Third World because it rejected the notion of a world divided into two, a world in which only the United States and the Soviet Union counted and everybody else had to declare for one or the other. It feared the power of the superpowers, exemplified and magnified by nuclear weapons.