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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).

Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but 1947–91 is common. The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, supported by the two sides. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences: the former being a single-party Marxist–Leninist state operating a planned economy and controlled press and owning exclusively the right to establish and govern communities, and the latter being a capitalist state with generally free elections and press, which also granted freedom of expression and freedom of association to its citizens. A self-proclaimed neutral bloc arose with the Non-Aligned Movement founded by Egypt, India, Indonesia and Yugoslavia; this faction rejected association with either the US-led West or the Soviet-led East. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat, but they were heavily armed in preparation for a possible all-out nuclear world war. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that deterred an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to total destruction of the attacker: the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD). Aside from the development of the two sides' nuclear arsenals, and deployment of conventional military forces, the struggle for dominance was expressed via proxy wars around the globe, psychological warfare, massive propaganda campaigns and espionage, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race.

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We’ve built a lot of bombs
And they’re all aimed at you
The USA decided
That you are evil too
Rising of the evening sun
Keeping enemies at bay
Scared by an image
It’s the American way
Provided by the CIA
Weapons for a game they play
A distant cry of disarray
A sanctum we invade
Death before dishonour
And conflicts overseas
We’ll use our flag of freedom
To bring you to your knees
The fear of mass destruction
Another arms race planned
Making money of the killings
Stick your head in the sand
Provided by the CIA
Weapons for a game they play
A distant cry of disarray
A sanctum we invade
Turning the heat up
In a new cold war
You can read it in the papers
You can see it on TV
You can almost taste the blood
Of another casualty
So let’s all sit back
And watch it go to hell
It’s just a story on the news

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Note from Taiwan: The Players on the Eve of Destruction

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War has returned to our world ... Trump exposes EU bankruptcy on trade, war and climate ... The mostly stable world created in the aftermath of the Cold War was good not just for Taiwan, but for China as well.

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2, under the terms of the last offer made to the union ... Once certifications are lost, they are rarely restored, the union said ... The Hanford site produced plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program from World War II through the Cold War ... .

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Jan ... diplomatic relations ... politicians, it is time to remember late U.S ... Amid Cold War tensions, Carter acted decisively to sever official ties with Taiwan, setting the stage for steady and sound growth of bilateral ties ... .

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Randall Balmer: Jimmy Carter had a second term. It just wasn’t in the White House

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In an interview with Natylie Baldwin, E. Wayne Merry reflects on his 1994 State Department telegram concerning Western relations with post-Soviet Russia ... (Kremlin.ru, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0) ... Baldwin ... in particular, right after the Cold War ended ... .

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‘Helped win the Cold War’: Former Nevada Test Site controller dies at 89

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John D ... “Every American that served out there helped win the Cold War, and John was in a very unique position being the test controller for underground nuclear tests,” Morgan said ... “In other words, it stopped war.” ... .

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Over 1,500 tents housing displaced Gazans inundated by rainwater

Anadolu Agency 01 Jan 2025

Heavy rains have inundated over 1,542 tents housing displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip in the past two days amid Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave, the Civil Defense Service said on Wednesday.

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