Sentences with phrase «cold war world»

Jazzpunk: Director's Cut ($ 14.99) Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis.

Through verdant fields and meandering brooks, life is simple and easy, far from the turmoil of the Cold War world.

Veteran Spielberg contributors cinematographers Janusz Kaminski (Schindler's List) and editor Michael Kahn (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) are each at the top of their respective games, while new collaborators costume designer Kasia Walicka - Maimone (Moonrise Kingdom) and production designer Adam Stockhausen (The Grand Budapest Hotel) do a spectacular job helping the director give this Cold War world life.

The trouble lies with the fact that this Cold War world of secrecy, back stabbing and betrayal seems so alien in the internet age that it's quite difficult to involve yourself in the dense, convoluted story.

But Spudis countered that, in the post — Cold War world, it isn't proper to frame a discussion of NASA's current situation in the terms of Apollo.

«The Cold War world was like chess.

Not exact matches

Looking to the success of the post Cold War - era, when the world dismantled 90 % of its nuclear weapons, Nunn and Lugar maintain that safe denuclearization can be achieved with proper planning.

It includes market crashes, periods of high inflation, deflation, economic collapse, a nuclear missile crisis, a world war, a cold war and countless seemingly intractable crises.

Remembering the sacrifice of the soldiers who turned around a desperate battlefield situation and won during a cold and snowy period in late 1944 is a great way to remember the military veterans of World War II.

Lev Gudkov, head of the Russian polling group Levada - Center, told The Journal that in Russia «most people believe that the Third World War has begun, but right now we are still in the cold phase of the war, which may or may not turn into a hot war.&raqWar has begun, but right now we are still in the cold phase of the war, which may or may not turn into a hot war.&raqwar, which may or may not turn into a hot war.&raqwar.»

This is a much more complex world today than it was during the Cold War.

The essential European idea was born of the horrors of the world wars and the terrors of the Cold War.

One of the very greatest acts of statesmanship in the postwar world was when the founding chancellor of the German Federal Republic (West Germany), Konrad Adenauer, declined Stalin's offer of reunification in exchange for German neutrality in the Cold War.

Throughout the Cold War immediately following the end of World War II, the world tested a mind - boggling number of nuclear weaWorld War II, the world tested a mind - boggling number of nuclear weaworld tested a mind - boggling number of nuclear weapons.

U.S. and Soviet spies during the Cold War assumed it wasn't just their enemy but their own government keeping tabs on them, so maybe this really isn't paranoia at all, but just the facts of life in the brave new world of meta data - crunching by the world's superpowers.

War has always provided some enterprising businesses with an incentive to invent new things: Jeeps in World War II, satellites in the Cold War, armor plating for Humvees in Iraq.

With headaches like natural disasters, rising wages in China, and a financial domino effect gripping economies around the world — not to mention recession - induced protectionism like U.S. President Barack Obama's jobs bills with their Buy American clauses — have we reached the limits of the global integration that has propelled the world economy since the end of the Cold War?

This kind of Cold War - era fallout killed scores of innocent people in the Pacific, including Japanese fishermen, and is still causing cancer and health problems around the world today.

But by 1980 property prices had turned down as interest rates rose during the Vietnam War and the general Cold War buildup throughout the world.

For instance, while Star Wars has very evident religious Buddhist and Taoist overtones, Star Trek shows religion from a cold perspective (e.g., science is supreme and only cultures and worlds without an in - depth knowledge of science need religion).

In the English - speaking world, however, the Cold War having been won, Aron's refusal to join the ranks of the apologists for Stalinism is not as exciting as it once was: thus do scholarly fates wax and wane.

The news and events of today are no worse than during the height of the Cold War, or during WW1 or WW2, but overall it is true that man's world gets progressively worse and will continue to do so until man's effort to deny and hide from God reaches its cl - imax.

And yet America's disarmament or defeat during the Cold War would have meant have disaster, slavery, and war for much of the worWar would have meant have disaster, slavery, and war for much of the worwar for much of the world.

America's victory in the Cold War benefitted the whole world, including, above all, the captive peoples of the Soviet Bloc.

Our support for rebuilding Europe and Japan after World War II, though in part motivated by the cold war, was sustained and successful, the opposite of the pattern of hit and run we are tempted by todWar II, though in part motivated by the cold war, was sustained and successful, the opposite of the pattern of hit and run we are tempted by todwar, was sustained and successful, the opposite of the pattern of hit and run we are tempted by today.

«At the official press conference that unveiled Caritas in Veritate, Cardinal Mgr Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council of Peace and Justice -LSB-...] said that Cold War ideologies «have been replaced by the new ideology of technology,» and that the «arbitrary nature of technology is one of the greatest problems of today's world.»

I understand that as the richest nation in the world we need raw resources, materials and markets, I am all for and, I enjoy it but I think we should go about getting it in a different way then the cold war era tactics.

The cold war may be over, but isolationism is not in the cards for the world's one remaining superpower.»

Goldberg mocking Trump for not understanding the post-war world is particularly weak because many Trump supporters (and not merely Trump supporters) might reasonably wonder why the alliances that date (formally or informally) to the Cold War still make sense today.

Here is how Gaddis describes the conflict of visions that defined the Cold War: «Both of the ideologies that defined those worlds were meant to offer hope: that is why one has an ideology in the first place.

The story runs through Woodrow Wilson's expansive mission to «make the world safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&rworld safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&rWorld War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&raqWar II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.&raqwar struggle against «godless communism.»

In the situation after the attacks of September 11, 2001, some say we are engaged in World War IV, referring to the Cold War as World War III.

In a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with history.

Like Tocqueville, he acknowledged that in many ways America was exceptional and that, marshaled to extraordinary power, our ideals had done and could do much good in the world; hence his criticism of Christian pacifism in the 1930s and defense of the Cold War in its early years.

In recent years the Cold War has ended, a «new world order» with a distinct swing toward democracy has begun to emerge, and human rights has assumed ever greater importance on the international scene.

An uneasy alliance through World War II fractured global relationships, Cold War tensions held sway for decades.

We have been moving toward globalization for centuries, but the process was interrupted by the communist revolution in Russia, the Great Depression, World War II and the cold war that followWar II and the cold war that followwar that followed.

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.

84 The only safe way to build a cold - war community was to assume that the dominion which the world needs for its peace always is ambiguous morally.

His political biography shows the nature of his alignments: social disillusionment with both capitalism and Marxism; embracement of pacifism, and then the abandonment of it during the rise of American isolationism and European fascism in the 1930s; the championing of U.S. intervention in World War II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. KenneWar II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennewar stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennedy.

Within that functional world - village, we find now existing genocidal war (Indochina), cold war, nuclear weapons threats, conventional weapons threats, colonialism and neo-colonialism, wildly unbalanced use of resources so that a major part of the world population starves or verges on starvation while a minor part consumes lavishly, racism, ignorance, a defilement of the environment through pollution of air, water and soil, and reckless wastage of irreplaceable resources.

Instead, it once again went to war pumped up on our own propaganda — especially the conjoined beliefs that the United States was the «indispensable nation,» the «lone superpower,» and the «victor» in the Cold War; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen, possessing as it did — from the heavens to the remotest spot on the planet — «full spectrum dominance.&raqwar pumped up on our own propaganda — especially the conjoined beliefs that the United States was the «indispensable nation,» the «lone superpower,» and the «victor» in the Cold War; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen, possessing as it did — from the heavens to the remotest spot on the planet — «full spectrum dominance.&raqWar; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen, possessing as it did — from the heavens to the remotest spot on the planet — «full spectrum dominance.»

His realpolitik perspective leads him to belittle the degree to which a concern for freedom drove, for instance, U.S. support for Western Europe's resistance to the Soviet Union during the Cold War (i.e., World War III).

Really, when you think about it, had the Cold War turned hot we could have blamed atheism for at least half the worlds destruction.

The celebrated «greatest generation» of World War II produced the architects of Cold War «containment,» who were vindicated almost a half century later with the end of «the evil empire.»

One might suggest that the cultural revolution declared at the beginning of the twentieth century was delayed by the distraction of crises — from World War I («the Great War») through the end of the Cold War in 1989.

We need to say to ourselves cold - bloodedly that if we do not rise to the demand of our time for a wider justice and a more stable world order, there is the real possibility that what will be left of humanity will be a few crazed survivors stumbling and mumbling about in the radioactive ruins left by the atomic war.

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.

The two world wars, the Great Depression, and the more than forty years of Cold War are all in the past.

And I suppose that you are using the word «comrade» as some sort of reference to Communism, which you associate with every person or idea that does not fit in with your ignorant view of the world, however during the Cold War the minority of the Middle Eastern Muslim cultures that hated the US tended to be even more hostile to the Soviets (who where officially Atheist).