Sentences with phrase «from cold war»

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Although «third world country» has come to mean an underdeveloped / impoverished nation, the term stems from the Cold War when the US and the USSR were the first and second worlds (along with their allies), and everyone not allied with the two superpowers was part of the third world.

Only a few years ago, the idea that for - profit companies and foreign agents could use powerful data technologies to disrupt American democracy would have seemed laughable to most, a plotline from a Cold War espionage movie.

I will also post some notes on stuff connecting ideas about advanced technology and strategy (conventional and nuclear) including notes from the single best book on nuclear strategy, Payne's The Great American Gamble: deterrence theory and practice from the Cold War to the twenty - first century.

We made historic progress in cleaning up nuclear contamination leftover from the Cold War, reducing the total footprint by nearly 75 percent and permanently cleaning up 690 square miles of contaminated land — an area more than 30 times the size of Manhattan.

At the time, our own John Laumer looked at it here, suggesting that «Implementation of a full - scale stratospheric sulfur injection project could best be performed by nations with plenty of equipment and bureaucracies left over from the Cold War,» calling it «Vulcan engineering.»

An estimated 50 million gallons of liquid wastes from Cold War plutonium production processes - laced with radioactive caesium and strontium salts - were dumped in a 13.7 sq. mile area south of central Hanford's 177 underground radioactive waste tanks.

Of which wars seem to push us further on the creeping edge of better ways of killing, that insanity side effects, the crumbs pushed us forward, some say the space age was different, but it was born from the cold war.

His subjects have extended from the Cold War to traditional Korean religious culture, from «media - oriented memory» to «regional utopian imaginations.»

Carlos Villa: Lets talk about the period of time from the cold war, to the civil rights march with Martin Luther King, all the way to the seventies, when women were being accepted and the door was open for them to come in and be actual participants in the art world.

For more information, visit Eastern European Abstract Expressionism from the Cold War Era Opens at Pollock - Krasner House & Study Center.

is a filmmaker and the Audiovisual Archivist at the Wende Museum in Culver City, which collects and preserves art, artifacts, archives, films, and personal histories from Cold War — era Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union relating to the period 1945 — 1991.

Noon: Kate Dollenmayer Kate Dollenmayer is a filmmaker and the Audiovisual Archivist at the Wende Museum in Culver City, which collects and preserves art, artifacts, archives, films, and personal histories from Cold War — era Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union relating to the period 1945 — 1991.

This In Focus offers a new reading of the painting in relation to the social and cultural mores of 1960s America, from the cold war space race to popular psychology.

The «triumph of American painting» has taken a lot of hits over the years, like much else from the Cold War.

Rauch paints individuals as stereotypes left over from the Cold War.

It seems the events from a Cold War operation, chronicled in le Carré's 1963 bestseller, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, have come back to haunt him.

Interestingly, space research is said to have benefited immensely from the Cold War rivalry between the two then super powers.

The image of Satan taking time off from the Cold War and McCarthyism to visit Manchester in 1960 - purpose of visit: to deceive Mrs Winterson - has a flamboyant theatricality to it.

Craig's Bond removes himself from the Cold War - era image of a slick, suave womanizer and gives fans a scrappy and rough, yet still charming, incarnation of the character in Casino Royale and its three sequels.

Shot in the manner of an old - school B - movie, Black Sea is a dynamite submarine thriller that could have been lifted from the cold war era, except for some decidedly 21st century themes: the shadowy excesses of globalisation and tyrannical corporate power.

Before that can happen, Frank is taken into custody and brought into a top - secret facility where they ask him about an old mission from the Cold War in which he participated involving a top - secret bomb (Lots of things are «top secret» here) under the Kremlin.

The opening sequences of George Clooney's Suburbicon unfold in front of us like an animated book straight from a Cold War infomercial.

It is here that the film diverges significantly from its Cold War antecedents, trading bullets for blowjobs and delivering salacious thrills for veterans of»90s Skinemax midnight features.

There's not much I need to say about Kubrick — he was a visionary in both form and content, constantly pushing the envelope on what he could put in movies, from the Cold War satire of Dr. Strangelove, the ultraviolence of A Clockwork Orange and the bloody glee of The Shining, to the sexual obsessions of Lolita and Eyes Wide Shut.

People give this game such a bad reputation because there are a Lot of cutscenes in this game however if you are a fan of the games universe this is perfect for you because this game series has been going on for near 20 years at the point this game was released and in that time there had been about 7 other games released which covered content from the cold war onwards to the games present

In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus — a giant robot doomsday device from the Cold War.

In a rare break from the Cold War origins Lee tended to give his heroes, the X-Men were not people who had been bombarded by fallout or bitten by a radioactive trout; they were «mutants,» people born with psychic talents or the ability to shoot red power beams from their eyes, not Homo sapiens but homo superior.

Patriarshy Dom Tours, a Russian - American Cultural Center in Moscow, is operating as a full service travel agency, consistently enlarging the number of It sounded like a scene from a Cold War spy movie: Donald Trump Jr. was in a helicopter flying low on the outskirts of Russia's capital city.

Radiation from Cold War reveals whether our memory - forming brain region replenishes itself throughout our lives

In another area, the proposed budget would provide almost $ 5.5 billion in new appropriations for DoE's environmental cleanup programs to address contamination from Cold War nuclear weapons production.

Bindschadler's research led him to an archive of newly declassified spy satellite photos from the cold war.

THE fallout from cold war nuclear tests may prove the undoing of drug barons.

A few years later we found ourselves journeying to Russia in the cargo hold of an Ilyushin Il 20M propeller plane, a onetime aerial spy from the cold war era.

To find out, the Swedish scientists literally took advantage of fallout from the Cold War.

«A Perspective on the History of Health and Human Rights: from the Cold War to the Gold War,» Journal of Public Health Policy 29: 42 - 53.

NASA is rebooting its Mars landings, thanks to a smart idea from the cold war era, and high - stakes rocket tests in the desert.

It looked like a scene from a Cold War spy thriller.

«Love is Mystical» is the lead single from Cold War Kids» newest album, L.A. Divine, and it followed suit by jumping to No. 3 overall, the first two top 10 hits for the SoCal band.

They stay married because it is too much trouble or too expensive to separate, or because they gain some neurotic satisfactions from the cold war between them.

They drove about 14,000,000 women, children and men from their homes, freeing from the Cold War «National Security».

Excerpted from A Colder War by Charles Cumming.

Not exact matches

There is now more reported «activity from Russian submarines than we've seen since the days of the Cold War,» Johnstone told Jane's.

An FPRI report in national security magazine War on the Rocks says contemporary gray tactics differ from those used during the Cold War.

The new armaments don't make the Stryker a fighting vehicle, but Meissel said the search for heaftier weapons stems from the reduction in manpower in Europe from 300,000 during the Cold War to about 30,000 now.

As the cold war wound down, CEO James Yoh, a nuclear physicist by training, figured his best chance for growth would come from within.

Since then, though, Uber and Google have shifted from partners to a «cold war.»

Kelly: Well, we were in a Cold War with the former Soviet Union, and tensions with Russia occur, from time to time.

Cuba was formally removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism late last month, a critical step toward rapprochement 54 years after Washington cut off relations at the height of the Cold War and imposed an economic embargo.

China has given American investors and importers enough of a common interest to lobby to prevent the U.S. Government from intensifying its Cold War against China.