Sentences with phrase «height of the cold war»

However, the guidebook broke ground by mainstreaming the globalized backpacker counterculture at the polarized height of the Cold War.

The issue of Hans Island then loss traction in popular consciousness and the concerns of the Canadian and Danish governments throughout World War II and the heights of the Cold War, only to reemerge in 1984.

But as troubling as the largest civil defense drills since the height of the Cold War have been, the steps Russia has taken to improve its offensive nuclear capabilities likely overshadow them.

The result is that this third generation, now moving into the ranks of power in North Korea, has a greater understanding and interaction with the West compared to their parents, who came of age at the height of the Cold War.

Imagine going to a communist country to make your product at the height of the Cold War.

«I would hazard to guess there are more foreign intelligence officers inside the U.S. working against U.S. interests now than even at the height of the Cold War,» said Crumpton.

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.

Pete went on to serve in the Navy as an award - winning aviator and instructor pilot, honing his leadership and decision - making skills as commander of a large multi-engine aircraft and 12 - member crew during the height of Cold War tensions.

SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP)-- The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed Wednesday, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War.

It was an odd and urgent time, the peak of national self - confidence and anxiety, the height of the Cold War.

Writing at the height of the Cold War, Walker Percy wryly summed up the mood of the atomic age: «What people really fear is not that the bomb will fall but that the bomb will not fall.»

At the height of the Cold War, political scientists questioned whether the Orthodox Church had become incompatible with the modern state.

Collections of memorabilia record his controversial trip to Russia at the height of the Cold War, his interactions with Romanian Orthodox Christians, and his relationship with Pope John Paul II.

At the height of the cold war, when the reality of the nuclear threat began to sink in, there were stirrings for peace in the churches in the United States.

King was speaking at the height of the Cold War, and he specifically addressed resistance to the evils of Communism, which he said Christians had a right and obligation to mount — but always justly, and not out of hatred, and not with the desire to destroy individuals who could be saved.

At the height of the Cold War, the AFL - CIO, under George Meany and then Lane Kirkland, knew whose side it was on.

The money for the Tibetans and the Dalai Lama was part of the CIA's worldwide effort during the height of the Cold War to undermine Communist governments, particularly in the Soviet Union and China.

Set at the height of the Cold War, the French Secret Service alerts the US and President Reagan to the activities of a Soviet spy, Sergei Gregoriev (Kusturica), high up in the KGB, who is smuggling out extensive details of the KGB's intelligence - gathering capabilities.

So during the height of the cold war, the U.S. maintained a nuclear arsenal that would be able to strike all Soviet Targets on Second Strike with the assumption that only 3 % of their launch platforms would survive the first strike with enough time to launch a second strike.

Georgi Markov was assassinated in London using ricin in 1978 (the height of the cold war).

Jeremy Corbyn met a communist spy at the height of the Cold War, according to secret files obtained...

Jeremy Corbyn met a communist spy at the height of the Cold War, according to secret files obtained by The Sun.

At the height of the Cold War, the liaison was highly damaging to the government.

However, if you'll note the timeframe when all of those things were officially added, it was during the height of the Cold War and anti-Communist hysteria in the USA.

In a video posted online, the Labour leader hit back at some of Britain's biggest newspapers after he was accused of passing secrets to a Czech spy at the height of the Cold War.

During the height of the Cold War, the Rosenbergs were executed for espionage.

When it joined in 1952 it was a constitutional monarchy, and when the junta came to power in 1967 it was also the height of the cold war... and so somewhat of a bad time to start kicking out NATO members.

To be sure, some of the money has been found from the defence budget (as a proportion of GDP, defence spending has fallen by three - quarters since the Korean War and the height of the Cold War); but most of the money has had to come from higher taxes.

Lord Adonis, the former Labour minister who used to be a Lib Dem, said that at the «macro level», he said, cooperation between Labour and the Lib Dems was difficult: «It's a bit like trying to conduct Ostpolitik at the height of the cold war», a reference to the attempts at reconciliation between West Germany and East Germany led by former West German chancellor Willy Brandt - «and neither me nor Gisela are Willy Brandt.»

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 resulting musical is a surprising, and surprisingly humane and earthy, escapade based on the Greenham Common women's peace camp, a lengthy women - only protest at the siloing of nuclear missiles at the RAF Greenham Common airbase in the UK around the early 1980s — the height of the cold war.

The Moon: 25 years after touchdown It may have started out as political one - upmanship at the height of the Cold War, but the race to land on the Moon quickly captured the imagination of ordinary people everywhere

In the late 1960s, at the height of the Cold War space race, the Apollo programme alone received as much as 0.8 per cent of the US's gross domestic product — equivalent to more than $ 60 billion today.

It was the height of the Cold War, but politics did not impede science.

Even at the height of the Cold War, it was never easy to recruit scientists to Aldermaston.

Pulling off that feat is the equivalent of a Soviet spy snapping a picture of himself grinning in the U.S. president's Oval Office at the height of the Cold War.

it's set in the late 50s / early 60s during the height of the cold war.

Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century.

In 1959, during the height of the Cold War, an experienced fighter pilot finds himself trapped in a malfunctioning spacecraft and must fight to survive in order to make it home to Earth.

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Considered by many to be the greatest chess player to ever live, Bobby Fischer Against the World is the first and definitive documentary biography of the eccentric genius who rose from humble beginnings and captivated a world audience with his victory over Russia's Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War.

Here's the official synopsis: In this remarkable true story set in the height of the Cold War, chess legend Bobby Fischer is locked in a gripping championship clash with the Soviets as he struggles against his own psychological demons while the whole world anxiously awaits the outcome.

You are not just generic - soldier - man in some nondescript jungle; you're Naked Snake infiltrating the Russian wilderness at the height of the Cold War.

Based on the classic novel of the same name, by John le Carré, the film is set at the height of the Cold War, when paranoia is running rampant and time is running out.