Sentences with phrase «cold war arms»

This was a time when American artists faced existential dilemmas in the aftermath of World War II and the escalating Cold War arms race.

General Nonfiction: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday)

As part of the Cold War arms race, the United States found itself engaged in the Space Race, pushing for superiority through technology

In 1950s Moscow, communist Katya secretly spies for the Americans in the Cold War arms race.

And then there's «The Butter Battle Book», perhaps Seuss's most pointed parable, a take on the Cold War arms race that horrified this author as a child whose parents dared to tell him what the tale of bigger, crazier guns and differing philosophies was really about.

To date, the federal government has spent more than $ 7 billion compensating people made sick by the government - run nuclear program that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War arms race.

Girard's primary example of such hypocrisy was the mythological (according to his elaboration of myth as the perpetrator's justifications for violence) notion of Mutual Assured Destruction of the Cold War arms race that was contemporary with the writing of his book in the late 1970s.

Not exact matches

Though the treaty was intended to limit the Cold War nuclear arms race, it has created obstacles to private space exploration.

My problem is the kneejerk hatred of American power which won two world wars and the cold war and the fact that we yes WE protected Europe for years and still without our military presence many of the countries of Europe (who by the way will not arm and participate) would be overrun first by the USSR and later by Islamofascists.

The Cold War was a period of moral clarity when the other side really was an evil empire, and when armed resolve for once succeeded in defeating the expansion of evil in the world.

American troops are stationed in 75 countries; each branch of the armed services has its own air force; and in the next year we may learn if the U.S. can pull off what it has been preparing to do since the end of the cold war: fight two regional wars at the same time.

There are many indications that the Roman Church will no longer be a spiritual arm of the West in the Cold War.

It will become like the old Cold War scenario — a spending race rather than an arms race.

If joining the arms race is the only option then all well and good — remember the old Cold War adage of mutually assured destruction.

Being a huge producer of arms during the world wars and suffering no foreign invasion that would impede its production or force it to reconstruct post-war made for a large post-war arms industry that continued to grow as the cold war set in.

The leather bag up for auction has particular significance as it was attached to Ms Thatcher's arm during Cold War negotiations with US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The reason the 1998 tests received more attention and more condemnation was largely because at this point the cold war was long over and the rest of the world could afford to focus on the fight between India and Pakistan, also now you had two nuclear - armed countries that had a long history of going to war.

«Trust, but verify,» Poloncarz said, quoting former President Ronald Reagan's view on arms control with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Indications have emerged that the Senators may have also develop a cold war with the executive arms of government over the poor implementation of the 2012...

«A Colder War» takes a wildly different turn, replacing the nuclear arms...

That was the height of the Cold War, when nuclear arms and rhetoric escalated, and President Ronald Reagan envisioned a space - based anti-missile «shield» — promptly dubbed «Star Wars» by skeptics — that could thwart attacks by the «Evil Empire,» also known as the -LSB-...]

The U.S. strikes that brought nuclear destruction of those two cities also thrust the world onto a new trajectory — one that led to the terrifying development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb and the ruinous arms races of the cold war it entailed.

DISPOSING of redundant rocket motors has been an explosive headache for the US, as it scales down its arms stockpile following the end of the Cold War.

Written as the Cold War was winding down, Ride and her co-authors proposed a method to verify the presence of nuclear - armed missiles on ships and submarines.

While the Cold War has receded, arms control remains a global priority, driven by fears of terrorism, nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, and creeping tensions between the United States and Russia.

«We're not talking about big, thick structures that we want to keep an eye on like in the Cold War,» says Wade Pulliam, program manager with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office, an arm of the Pentagon charged with researching and developing new technology for the defense department.

THE American atomic bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 signalled the end of the Second World War — and the start of the Cold War and the nuclear arms race.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has brought a new edge to the Cold War, and in 1984, a one - eyed man with a prosthetic arm appears in the country.

Features all of the featurettes, interviews and archival supplements of the previous DVD release along with a Blu - ray exclusive video track of picture - in - picture interviews and trivia on the cold war and nuclear arms race.

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Of course, it's none other than Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, who was granted sanctuary by T'Challa at the end of 2016's Captain America: Civil War, with one arm and a fear of being turned into a stone - cold killer again.

«The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has brought a new edge to the Cold War, and in 1984, a one - eyed man with a prosthetic arm appears in the country.

Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 (Steve Carell) of Cold War dinosaur intelligence agency CONTROL (repurposed now as a secret arm of Homeland Security, natch), begins the film as the agency's top analyst, called into action after the identity of the klatch's stable of spooks is compromised by nefarious KAOS agent Siegfried (Terrence Stamp).

On the fly firearm customization lets you dress up standard rifles, PDWs, SMGs, and other firearms both Cold War era and Modern with the usual arrangement of tactical furniture including laser sights, optics, muzzle devices, forward vertical grips, and various other gadgets for modifying your stats and your play style as well the overall effectiveness of your arms.

• Foo Fighters — «Stacked Actors» • Judas Priest — «Hell Bent For Leather» • Kyuss — «Demon Cleaner» • Lynyrd Skynyrd — «Tuesdays Gone» • Machine Head — «Beautiful Mourning» • Mastodon — «Blood And Thunder» • Mercyful Fate — «Evil» • Michael Schenker Group — «Armed and Ready» • Motörhead — «Ace of Spades» • Queen — «Stone Cold Crazy» • Samhain — «Mother of Mercy» • Slayer — «War Ensemble» • Social Distortion — «Mommy's Little Monster (Live)» • Suicidal Tendencies — «War Inside My Head» • System of a Down — «Toxicity» • The Sword — «Black River» • Thin Lizzy — «The Boys Are Back in Town»

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has brought a new edge to the Cold War, and in 1984, a one - eyed man with a prosthetic arm appears in the country.

Independent Canadian developer Alina Digital have announced that their real - time / turn base strategy game, Arms Race — The Cold War Era, is now available on Steam.

Later, with MoMA especially, the museum itself would become an arm of aggressive cultural diplomacy, promoting Abstract Expressionism as a campaign of the Cold War.

The recent exhibition «Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War» at HKW interrogated the intertwined re-canonization of modernism and the international propagation of a US - backed, anti-communist idea of «cultural freedom» put forth by the many - armed Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) from 1950 — 1967.

I like big issues and the arms race was the biggest game in town, until we won the cold war and it all went away.

Pricing legal work often reminds me of the last days of the Cold War during which the United States allegedly brought the then - Soviet Union to bankruptcy by forcing it to overspend on the arms race.

The report's proposals ultimately failed in the United Nations Security Council, being deemed unsatisfactory to both U.S. and Soviet interests, and the Cold War nuclear arms race was on.