Not only does the ensuing crisis rank with the Berlin Blockade, the Suez Crisis and the Yom Kippur War as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, it is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict, or possibly World War III, where it is estimated that 100 million Americans and over 100 million Russians would have perished.

For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the 20th century, while over 20 concurrent civil wars were occurring at the end of the Cold War, before a significant decrease as conflicts strongly associated with the superpower rivalry came to an end.

As the Cold War came to a close, internal and external pressures on Mobutu increased.

In 1951, as the Cold War developed and no buyer came forward, the authorities released him, and in 1953 he resumed control of the firm.

Further inspiration came from a Danger Man episode called " Colony Three ", in which Drake infiltrates a spy school in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

Both sides in the Cold War realized how close they came to nuclear war over Cuba, and decided to seek a reduction of tensions, resulting in US-Soviet détente for most of the 1960s and 1970s.

In the early 1990s, following the end of the Cold War the garrison tradition of the town came to an end when the Bundeswehr's Margrave Barracks ( Markgrafenkaserne ) and the Röhrensee Barracks ( Röhrenseekaserne ), used by the US Army and the BGS ( Grenzschutzabteilung Süd 3 ), were closed.

Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and progressing through the Cold War, the term came to refer more to non-conventional weapons.

As the Cold War came to a head in the 1960s, the government felt it best not to leave the use of nuclear weapons in the hands of possibly-renegade generals, including the commander of Strategic Air Command ( SAC ).

As the Korean War ended, along came a new conflict – the Cold War.

However the purchasing of aircraft was curtailed as the Cold War came to an abrupt end in the 1990s.

The orchestra underwent a crisis between 1949 and 1952 because Russell, who had been the leading force in keeping the orchestra going during the war years, came under pressure in the Cold War years because of his communist beliefs.

Faced with producing a new film in time for Star Treks 25th anniversary, Flinn and Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, wrote a script based on a suggestion from Leonard Nimoy about what would happen if " the wall came down in space ", touching on the contemporary events of the Cold War.

When Ronald Reagan came to Berlin in June 1987, he was met by around 50, 000 demonstrators protesting against his Cold War policies.

The Korean Peninsula Cold War officially continues, as the " hot war " came to an end with an Armistice ( the Korean Armistice Agreement of July 27, 1953 ) resulting in a cease-fire and creation of a demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, rather than with a treaty of peace or of surrender.

Following the end of the Cold War, Western concern over communism waned, and Suharto's human rights record came under greater international scrutiny.

Such warmth as there was in his life as a child came from his mother, who read Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe to him – it was to the latter that he later attributed his own desire to write stories such as " The Delicate Prey ", " A Distant Episode ", and " Pages from Cold Point "

As with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, the inspiration for Natural Affection came from a newspaper account of a seemingly meaningless and unmotivated murder.

As Cold War tensions rose, the United States and Japan signed the Treaty of San Francisco, which came into force on April 28, 1952.

The memorial plaques are the result of four years of effort by history enthusiast Andrew Kavchak, who first came across Gouzenko's case while at university, and decided that " the first major international event of the Cold War " deserved a memorial.

The base briefly came under Danish control in 1950, but following mounting concerns about the Cold War threat, a new agreement saw the United States reopen Bluie West-8 under the name of Sondrestrom Air Base on 27 April 1951.

In the audio commentary on the Special Edition DVD release of the movie adaptation, Frederick Forsyth claims that after the Cold War, one of his contacts in Moscow, a former KGB officer, told him that at the time the book was released the KGB examined the plot of the novel to see if such an operation were technically possible but came to the conclusion that it was not.

Jessica Andersson also entered with the song " Kalla Nätter " (" Cold Nights "), but came in fifth in her semifinal round, which eliminated her from the competition.

Cold weather causes water trapped in tiny rock cracks to freeze and expand, breaking the rock into several pieces.

Cold cracks in the welds, increased stress concentrations due to the weakened flange plate, the poor weld profile, and cyclical stresses ( which would be common in the North Sea ), seemed to collectively play a role in the rig's collapse.

Cold temperatures can cause cracks as the asphalt contracts.

From 2001 to 2004, two full series were produced, along with three one-off hour-long specials ; Gay ( retitled and issued as Absolutely Fabulous in New York for the United States ) in 2002, Cold Turkey, a Christmas special in 2003, and White Box ( which included the tying-up of loose-ends and past semi-regular characters appearing in cameos in what seemed an ironic finale for Saffy, Patsy, and Edina ), which aired in 2004.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold occurs during the heightened-alert politico-military tensions that characterised the late 1950s and early 1960s of the Cold War, when a Warsaw Pact – NATO war in Europe ( Germany ) seemed likely.

This sentiment grew in strength as the Cold War seemed to present the situation of an unending series of conflicts, which were fought at terrible cost to the younger generations.

According to Kennan, when American policymakers suddenly confronted the Cold War, they had inherited little more than rationale and rhetoric " utopian in expectations, legalistic in concept, moralistic in demand it seemed to place on others, and self-righteous in the degree of high-mindedness and rectitude ... to ourselves.

In contemporary terms, however, Asimov wrote the Empire series in the early years of the Cold War, when a nuclear World War 3 seemed a realistic future ; one whose widespread and enduring radioactive contamination might be remembered, at least in folklore, for thousands of years.

The link to the Great Western Main Line at North Pole Junction, three miles to the north, avoiding the western central London terminus of Paddington station, meant that the station was to play an important role in the Cold War should a nuclear exchange have seemed likely.

Their relationship was touched on again in " The Cold ", where they seemed awkward together.

The Cold War era seemed to encourage witch hunts, and comics found themselves blamed for the alarming increase in juvenile delinquency and other social ills.

Some of them are able to reject the programming altogether, such as Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, and Captain Boomerang, while others, including Pied Piper, Heat Wave, and the original Trickster, either seemed to remain under the programming or truly reformed, at least until Dillon revealed his reprogramming.

He, Weather Wizard, and Captain Cold seemed to express guilt immediately after Bart's death.

Angola-Zimbabwe relations have remained cordial since the birth of both states, Angola in 1975 and Zimbabwe in 1979, during the Cold War.

Angola and Vietnam have steadfast partners as both transitioned from Cold War-era foreign policies of international communism to pro-Western pragmatism following the fall of the Soviet Union.

Eventually, during the height of the Cold War, the threat would have actually expanded into regimental-size raids of Tu-16 Badger and Tu-22M Backfire bombers equipped with low-flying, long-range, high-speed, nuclear-armed cruise missiles and considerable Electronic Counter Measures ( ECM ) of various types.

The development of large strategic bombers stagnated in the later part of the Cold War because of spiraling costs and the development of the Intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) – which was felt to have equal deterrent value while being much more difficult to intercept.

The foreign policies of the neighbours have been closely aligned since the Cold War.

Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while The Apartment ( 1960 ), Alfie ( 1966 ) and The Graduate ( 1967 ) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously.

As the threat of Cold War eased, a number of such civil defense organisations have been disbanded or mothballed ( as in the case of the Royal Observer Corps in the United Kingdom and the United States civil defense ), while others have changed their focuses into providing rescue services after natural disasters ( as for the State Emergency Service in Australia ).

During the Cold War, the main role of the CVBG in case of conflict with the Soviet Union would have been to protect Atlantic supply routes between the United States and Europe, while the role of the Soviet Navy would have been to interrupt these sea lanes, a fundamentally easier task.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

Because of Ba ' athism's anti-Western stances it preferred the Soviet Union in the Cold War and admired and adopted certain Soviet organizational structures for their governments, however the Ba ' athist regimes have persecuted communists.

In the post – Cold War era, NATO and the EU have been gradually admitting most of the former members of the Warsaw Pact.

Brzezinski seems to have been in favor of the provision of arms to the rebels, while Cyrus Vance's State Department, seeking a peaceful settlement, publicly accused Brzezinski of seeking to " revive " the Cold War.

" Cold smoked " fish, that have not been salted for preservation, need to be cooked before being eaten safely ( they can be boiled, fried, grilled, jugged or roasted, for instance ).

Phayer's Pius XII, The Holocaust, and the Cold War ( 2008 ) makes use of many documents that have recently come to light due to Bill Clinton's 1997 executive order declassifying wartime and postwar documents, many of which are currently at the US National Archives and Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In the Historiography of the Cold War, a controversy over negationist historical revisionism exists, where numerous revisionist scholars in the West have been accused of whitewashing the crimes of Stalinism, overlooking the Katyn massacre in Poland and disregarding the validity of the Venona messages with regards to Soviet espionage in the United States.

For example, the CIA is alleged to have sabotaged a Siberian pipeline during the Cold War, using information from the Farewell Dossier.

Since the release, critics and film historians have seen Night of the Living Dead as a subversive film that critiques 1960s American society, international Cold War politics and domestic racism.

Throughout the Cold War and beyond, the countries of the Third World have been the priority recipients of Western foreign aid and the focus of economic development through mainstream theories such as Modernization Theory and Dependency Theory.

The game was first published in 1984 during the Cold War and was intended to be an accurate depiction of a possible future, but events in the world have rendered the premise of the game an alternate history.

Writing for the New York Times shortly after the flight, however, journalist Arthur Krock described mixed feelings in the United States due to fears of the spaceflight's potential military implications for the Cold War, and the Detroit Free Press wrote that " the people of Washington, London, Paris and all points between might have been dancing in the streets " if it were not for " doubts and suspicions " about Soviet intentions.