Sentences with phrase «of cold war»

From the Studio: From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER - an other - worldly fable, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962.

This original film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow, finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.

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.

Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) is an opportunistic businessman who stumbled into a gold mine after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Synopsis: It's the height of the Cold War, and famous archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), returning from his latest adventure, finds out his job at... [MORE]

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.

Synopsis: In the early 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, a mutant named Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) meets a fellow mutant named Erik Lehnsherr (Mic... [MORE]

Play as one - of - four pulp inspired heroes as they fight swarms of terrifying robots with an arsenal of Cold War era weapons and experimental technology.

Soon into the mission, you uncover a conspiracy that could turn the tides of the Cold War in the communists» favor.

Don't expect any of the Cold War chic of last year's Atomic Blonde either.

Back then, the news felt like a potentially fatal blow for hand - drawn animation, the final surrender of a cold war that had started with friendly fire (Pixar) and ended with outright humiliation («The Emoji Movie»).

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

Synopsis: Follows Captain Alexi Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) who, at the height of the Cold War, is ordered to take over command of the nuclear missile submarin... [MORE]

Based on the best moments of Atomic Blonde, I would very much like to see a series of films in which Charlize Theron's ruthless, brutal and glamorous secret agent dispatches a variety of Cold War - era enemies to the accompaniment of hit songs from the 80s.

Yet to this day the fate of the victims is one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War.

It feels like there's so much more to this story that's missing, either from the interview subjects» reticence to share too much or the filmmakers reluctance to embrace more of the Cold War paranoia thriller trappings the story can veer into.

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.

The end of The Cold War must've been just as frightening to Hollywood movie makers as it was to the Russian old - guard.

During the thousand years of its existence, the city grew from a settlement stretching from Prague Castle in the north to the fort of Vyšehrad in the Prague Spring; Part of Cold War and invasion of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovaks carry their national flag past a burning Soviet tank in Prague.

The end of cold war did not mean the end of the spy fiction or Soviet / Russian spy characters in American movies.

The museum is able to tell the story from the post war era through to the close of the Cold War, and with names like Hawker, De Havilland, Percival, Blackburn and Avro on display; this is going to be a museum that is ideal for aircraft fans and people who love local history.

Korean War In South Korea: (한국전쟁, 전쟁) In North Korea: (조국해방전쟁) Part of the Cold War and the inter-Korean conflict: Clockwise Pizza Hut Korea's fall release, «Star Edge Pizza,» is shaped like a multi-pointed star with the points crammed full of cinnamon apple nut or

This may require some persuasion on your behalf but you and your partner can take a step back in time to the chilling days of the Cold War.

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

In the wake of the Hawaiian missile false alarm, the island paradise has revived the usage of Cold War sirens, reports the Associated Press.

Some historians consider the 1990s to be the beginning of our modern society with the end of the Cold War (amongst other things).

Participants were required to become experts on one aspect of the Cold War, presenting to the group at different destinations to connect these historic European sites to their importance in grand strategy.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

At the height of the Cold War in 1961, Russian scientists came to Green Bank for a symposium.

In its heyday, the programme had more than 100 staff; but when it was abruptly shut down in the wake of the cold war, just four or five people were left to look after the material it had produced.

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).

From the early 1950s to the end of the cold war, nearly 250,000 animals were systematically irradiated.

Dzerzinsk, Russia — A center of Cold War chemical manufacturing, the city's 300,000 residents have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world thanks to waste injected directly into the ground.

With the end of the cold war, national defense has given way to international competitiveness as the theme for federal support of research.

In the wake of the Cold War, the Unites States and Russia had excess weapons - grade uranium and plutonium.

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.

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

These remnants of the Cold War are also an example of an unanticipated political issue that could arise because of the effects of climate change, particularly as countries seek to establish a presence in the Arctic as warming makes it increasingly accessible.

Soviet scientists made redundant by the end of the Cold War want to earn a living by incinerating toxic chemicals and old nuclear reactors in underground nuclear blasts.

This subject has a long history that dates back to the end of the Cold War, combining complex technical, policy, and diplomatic issues.

It could be argued, I suppose, that our ascent to these unseen heights of focus and dedication was fueled by the very worst aspects of our nature, namely tribal fear and hatred of the cold war, but not, I would submit, by anyone who isn't a paid lobbyist for another, lesser species.

The good news is that the production lines at the old Soviet radar factories in Russia have adjusted to the end of the Cold War, and are turning out microwave ovens instead of components for weapons systems.

The problems of coping with the end of the Cold War become even more acute away from the shopfloor.

Despite the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 — and thus the end of the cold war policy of mutually assured destruction — the U.S. maintains a stockpile of roughly 10,000 nuclear weapons.

Supplemented by documents and photographs from the AAAS Archives, the timeline highlights the contributions of the Pacific Division over the last century, including presentations on the causes of the Dust Bowl during the division's meetings in the 1930s, a resolution against the use of herbicides by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, and partnerships with Russian scientists after the end of the Cold War.

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.

Since the end of the Cold War there are not only more human rights groups, but these human rights monitors are allowed better access to countries and areas that were previously off - limits, Fariss said.

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

The architects of the cold war - era space race could hardly have imagined the number of nations that would follow their lead.

Devastated by firebombing during World War II and blocked from receiving TV signals from the West during much of the Cold War, the eastern German city of Dresden once bore the unfortunate nickname of «Valley of the Clueless.»