Sentences with phrase «about cold war»

In fact one of the things we can say about the cold war and the politics it produced is that it being such an expensive and encompassing conflict, is that it precluded normal politics.

Ben I didn't mean to suggest that you believe that the threat of nuclear war is currently real — that's my belief, tagged on to yours about the cold war.

Whether it is the start of the World Cup, documentaries about the Cold War or the British Renaissance, these linkages attract wide audiences to the paintings on Your Paintings.

Sean Kelly, author of Home Bases, talks about Cold War tourism in London and the historical American bases people can still visit.

without knowing much about the Cold War or President Kennedy.

This 1964 film by Stanley Kubrick stars Peter Sellers and George C. Scott in a satire about the Cold War politics that dominated the second half of American culture in the 20th century.

When they came out of the Second World War, they thought about the cold war.

One of the assumptions about the Cold War was that if you departed from the American script you were anti-American and therefore part of the Soviet Union.

I take it you never lived through or learned about the Cold War and MAD.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

Those who think that thinking about the Cold War is old hat will not appreciate Revel's searing indictment of Western intellectuals who, had they had their way, would have sold out democracy to Communist totalitarianism.

Not exact matches

«I was here visiting just a few days before the visit of President Obama, and I remember at the time there was much talk about Cuba strengthening relations with both the European Union and the United States,» Mogherini said, when asked by reporters about the Trump administration's partial rollback of a fragile detente between the old Cold War foes.

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.

The three - martini power lunch ended about the same time as the Cold War.

One thing that struck me while re-reading the series was how forthcoming L'Engle is about her own fears around raising children during the Cold War.

The story involves spies, skullduggery, and Cold War domestic politics, but mostly it is about people who clearly understood the evil of communism and did something about it.

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.

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

In «Lawyers, Guns and Money»» his biting satire about political intrigue and personal misfortune» Zevon captured the selfishness and cold war paranoia of the «Me Decade»:

Without the «Cold War» many in the military who support Paul think that there is no need to waste time in backwaters like Iraq and Afghanistan, as many thought about in Vietnam back in the day.

You think she is talking about today and the consequences of the sexual revolution — after all this is the book's topic — but she ends up talking about communism and the cold war, current dietary restrictions and food obsessions, and the historically prior widespread popular acceptance of smoking tobacco (primarily cigarettes).

As I mentioned in my post, «2016 and the Risk of Birth,» in revisiting Madeleine L'Engle's Genesis Trilogy, I've been struck by how forthcoming the author is about her own fears around raising children during the Cold War.

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

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.

Just think about it: for most of the 20th century Christianity in Russia was persecuted, the Orthodox Church was often a tool in the hands of the Soviet government, and relations between Catholicism and Orthodoxy were either tense or frozen in the ice of Cold War realities.

However, when the Cold War ended, the capitalist elite was no longer much concerned about these matters.

People are afraid of being considered soft on communism if they raise serious questions about national attitudes and policies in the Cold War.

The Cold War Kids frontman and principal songwriter has always stood in the middle, so to speak, not capitulating to either side on a number of fronts: He's been upfront about his own spiritual pursuits even while eschewing conservative or fundamental beliefs.

It is not something that has come about only in the last few years, for examples, as if it came about only after the «end» of the so - called «Cold War», or the so - called «collapse» of the Soviet Union and the other Eastern European socialist societies.

Some persons perhaps, crushed by the burden of medical expenses, had no objection to a cold - war garrison state as such, yet they could wonder about a nation that spent far more on weapons than on health coverage.

Here is an amazing article about 122 years old starter nurtured by generations in Lucille's family: «It has lived through the turns of two centuries, the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam and beyond, blues, jazz, rock»n' roll and 23 U.S. presidencies....

Leaving aside those cold places in history where fascism, sport and war have coincided, when people have played football in the fear that the wrong result could cost them their lives, this Brazil side that will compete for the 2014 World Cup are about to embark on the most pressurised footballing campaign of all time.

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The lack of ideas about how to respond to Russia is demonstrative of how unlike the Cold War this is, despite appearances to the contrary.

Talk about communism and capitalism would just make this another Cold War play, but ideology barely enters the frame.

The best thing about the philosophy of the Cold War is the American comedy The Canadian Bacon.

«It is a very expensive weapon system which was developed in the Cold War to meet the conditions of the Cold War which ended 17 years ago, and it is still capable of functioning fully for about another 15 years from now,» Mr Clarke said.

The surge of Daesh did in fact help Al Assad, as it gave Western powers cold feet about the idea of further help to the rebels (or even a more direct involvement to end the civil war).

The Conservative MP Ben Bradley has apologised unreservedly and will make a substantial donation to charity for a tweet making claims about Jeremy Corbyn's links to cold war spies, the Labour party said.

THE cold war forgot about these relics.

This new cold war is all about trade and resources: According to a 2008 study by the U.S. Geologic Survey, the Arctic has 20 percent of the planet's undiscovered and recoverable oil and natural gas deposits.

«The folks who did this back in the Cold War are about to retire.

«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.

In the wake of the Cold War, the Pentagon and the many contractors it employs are more worried than ever about the survival of their favourite projects.

In a 2012 paper Jacques Blamont, a founding director of the French space agency CNES, argued that people are losing interest in the human exploration of space «because spacefaring nations, and especially the USA, have clung on to outmoded cold war ways of thinking about it.

If there's truth in cold war claims about tracking subs, it would rewrite our theories of turbulence and foil our nuclear deterrent

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

Maybe there is still some of that Cold War mystique about them, or maybe it is

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.

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.