0 a state of extreme unfriendliness existing between countries, especially countries with opposing political systems, that expresses itself not through fighting but through political pressure and threats. The expression is usually used of the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after the Second World War. --
1 a continuing and dangerous unfriendly situation existing between countries that is expressed in political ways, often including threats of war --
2 an extremely unfriendly relationship between countries, which is expressed not through fighting but through political pressure and threats. The expression usually refers to the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after the Second World War: --
A number of books written by former diplomats focus on events that took place during the cold war era.
This marked a triumphant crossing of the cold war divide, and the opening of tremendous economic opportunity.
Some cold war historians are triumphalist, and celebrate winners and console losers, as if the cold war was like all the others.
This paper, devoted to a fragment of this story concerning the cold war years, tries to give an answer to these questions.
Both movements emerged within very specific national contexts framed by the national repercussions of the cold war and the specific political conditions in each country.
The fruit of female sexuality was chaos - a common enough message in early cold war literature and drama.
Rethinking the cold war; rethinking science and technology in the cold war; rethinking the social study of science and technology.
The implications of this line of argumentation may be lost on most readers today: the cold war had just begun, anticommunism was a dominating sentiment.
