One of the inescapable realities of the Cold War is that it has thrust upon the West a wholly new and historically unique set of moral dilemmas.

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.

It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.

Here is the best short explanation of the origins of the Cold War that has been written.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

He intimated that they weren't doing the country much good in the Cold War.

At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.

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

The treaty was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War.

* 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term " Cold War " to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

* 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

* 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

During the Cold War, the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-communists, but many local affiliates defended members of the Communist Party.

As a result of this, the main battle tank ( MBT ) conceived in the Cold War era can survive multiple RPG strikes with minimal effect on the crew or the operation of the vehicle.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

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The Cold War involved intense espionage activity between the United States of America and its allies and the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and their allies, particularly related to nuclear weapons secrets.

Johnny Fedora achieved popularity as a fictional agent of early Cold War espionage, but James Bond is the most commercially successful of the many spy characters created by intelligence insiders during that struggle.

* Visit the Cold War International History Project ( CWIHP ) for the full text of Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks containing more information on Fuchs ' involvement in espionage

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.

In the 1980s, US television featured the light espionage programmes Airwolf ( 1984 – 87 ) and MacGyver ( 1985 – 92 ), each rooted in the Cold War yet reflecting American citizens ' distrust of their government, after the crimes of the Nixon Government ( the internal, political espionage of the Watergate Scandal and the Vietnam War ) were exposed.

Because the end of the Cold War in 1991, mooted the USSR, the Iron Curtain countries, and Russia as credible enemies of democracy, espionage novelists were at a ( temporary ) loss for nemeses.

* 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

** Cold War: In Moscow, the American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage.

On the one hand, the realistic spy novels of Len Deighton and John le Carré were adapted into relatively serious Cold War thrillers which dealt with some of the realities of the espionage world.

The following year also saw several significant developments regarding Soviet Cold War espionage activities.

* For evidence on Soviet espionage in the United States during the Cold War, see the full text of Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks from the Cold War International History Project ( CWIHP )

* Richard C. S. Trahair, Encyclopedia of Cold War espionage, spies, and secret operations, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004

Arguments about the case and the validity of the verdict took center stage in broader debates about the Cold War, McCarthyism, and the extent of Soviet espionage in the United States .< ref >

He was involved in a Cold War computer espionage incident.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ( 1963 ), by British author John le Carré, is a British Cold War spy novel that became famous for its portrayal of Western espionage methods as being morally inconsistent with Western democracy and values.

At its publication during the Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ), the psychological realism of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold ( 1963 ) rendered it a revolutionary espionage novel by showing that the intelligence services of both the Eastern and Western nations practiced the same expedient amorality in the name of national security.

Cold War espionage describes the intelligence gathering activities during the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

While several such as the CIA and KGB became synonymous with Cold War espionage, many other organizations played key roles in the collection and protection of the secction concerning detection of spying, and analysis of a wide host of intelligence disciplines.

He became a pioneer of the " modern-day political thriller ," having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War.

In 1990, he returned to the Cold War political thriller genre with The Fourth War with Roy Scheider ( with whom Frankenheimer had worked previously on 52 Pick-Up ) as a loose cannon Army colonel drawn into a dangerous personal war with a Russian officer.

The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented: Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock ’ s sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence.

Despite this, the film later was applauded as a Cold War thriller.

He also appeared as the brainwashed Raymond Shaw in 1962 in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ( 1963 ) by John le Carré is set in the world of Cold War espionage and helped to usher in an era of more realistic thriller fiction, based around professional spies and the battle of wits between rival spymasters.

The film was based on the Cold War thriller Red Alert ( 1958 ) by Peter George, the rights to which Kubrick had secured for $ 3, 000.

He played Dale Massey in the 2003 thriller Cold Creek Manor, alongside Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone.

Yazov appears in Tom Clancy's Cold War espionage thriller The Cardinal of the Kremlin in his capacity as Defence Minister and the superior of the titular spy Colonel Filitov.

During this period he also starred in the Cold War espionage thriller, Codename: Kyril ( 1988 ), as an MI6 double agent.

Television work included the 1976 Play for Today A Story to Frighten the Children, and the 1982 adaptation of John le Carré's novel Smiley's People, starring Alec Guinness, both for the BBC ; and the 1988 Cold War espionage thriller Codename: Kyril for ITV.

Peter Bryan George ( 24 March 1924 – 1 June 1966 ) was a British author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, also known as Two Hours to Doom, written under the pen name Peter Bryant.

In a spy story set in his present, it was as natural for Doyle to portray these two countries as the potential purveyors of the stolen naval treaty as it would have been to portray the Soviet Union in that role in a Cold War spy thriller.

Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American psychological thriller film directed by Mike Figgis.

Stephen Holden of the New York Times observed, " A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller Cold Creek Manor with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits.

Starting in 1950 with director William Berke ’ s Mark of the Gorilla, Katzman proved himself a master of all genres, with such films as Lew Landers ’ Tyrant of the Sea ( 1950 ), a rapidly paced swashbuckler ; Spencer Gordon Bennet ’ s Cody of the Pony Express ( 1950 ), an elegiac western chapter-play ; the near-documentary State Penitentiary ( Lew Landers, 1950 ); the rousing action serial Pirates of the High Seas ( Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1950 ); Chain Gang ( Lew Landers, 1950 ), a hard-boiled exposé of the prison system reminiscent of Mervyn LeRoy ’ s 1932 classic I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ; A Yank in Korea ( Landers, 1951 ), covering the then-escalating conflict ), Richard Quine ’ s wartime drama Purple Heart Diary ( 1951 ); Last Train from Bombay ( Fred F. Sears, 1952 ), an exotic thriller ; Sears ' The 49th Man, an essay in Cold War atomic paranoia ; two Arabian Nights films, Prisoners of the Casbah and The Saracen Blade ( William Castle, 1954 ) and Castle ’ s The Iron Glove ( 1954 ), which starred Robert Stack in a Technicolor swashbuckler, done in typical Katzman fashion.

His first novel, Cold Eye, was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie Les Couleurs du diable ( Allain Jessua, 1997 ).

Having left Cold Feet, Ripley began to take on more leading roles ; her first role was as housewife Deanna in the BBC thriller Green-Eyed Monster, which was broadcast in September 2001.

After Panic Rooms success, Stewart was cast in another thriller, Cold Creek Manor, playing the daughter of Dennis Quaid's and Sharon Stone's characters.

The co-creator of EastEnders, Tony Holland, was impressed with composer Simon May and graphic-designer Alan Jeapes for their work on the titles and music for the spy thriller Cold Warrior.