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The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological and economic influence between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Cold War participants – the Cold War primarily consisted of competition between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc.While countries and organizations explicitly aligned to one or the other are listed below, this does not include those involved in specific Cold War events, such as North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.
The Atomic Cafe is a 1982 American documentary film directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty. [2] [3] [4] It is a compilation of clips from newsreels, military training films, and other footage produced in the United States early in the Cold War on the subject of nuclear warfare.
Black Ops Cold War 's single-player campaign features a safe house, where players are able to review evidence, interact with NPCs, and plan out missions via an evidence board. [3] As with previous Call of Duty games, Black Ops Cold War is a first-person shooter, featuring a single-player campaign, a multiplayer component, and the cooperative ...
NASA scientists in Greenland took an unprecedented look at Cold War history when surveys found an abandoned "city under the ice.". In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found ...
The Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959 was a crisis over the status of West Berlin during the Cold War.It resulted from efforts by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to react strongly against American nuclear warheads located in West Germany, and build up the prestige of the Soviet satellite state of East Germany.
The new dispute demonstrates "this is a cold war that's gone hot," Adam Kovacevich, CEO and Founder of the tech policy advocacy group Chamber of Progress, told Yahoo Finance.
Dan Einav of The Financial Times states, "Unlike Oppenheimer, the series looks beyond those who actively shaped seismic events to those helplessly caught in history." [3]Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph calls it, "a nine-part documentary series about the Cold War uses Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film as a convenient springboard."