Sentences with phrase «on cold war»

This week in history we've got Santa on the Cold War radar, baby HTTP going for a spin, and Babbage's birth to help usher in the age of computers.

It was a challenging task, says Toshihiro Higuchi, a historian at Georgetown University and expert on Cold War science.

In an interview with Time Magazine last week, Pruitt said he planned to model his red - team, blue - team debate on Cold War - era discussions of the Soviet nuclear threat and suggested that he believed his agency did not «engage in a robust, meaningful discussion» about the threat posed by carbon dioxide before adopting the endangerment finding.

last week, Pruitt said he planned to model his red - team, blue - team debate on Cold War - era discussions of the Soviet nuclear threat and

Finding myself in the same foxhole as Steve Schneider when the «Nuclear Winter «balloon went up — it was launched on the anniversary of Orson Welles» War of The Worlds Broadcast with a media graphics package prepared by the Creative Department of that great K - Street PR institution Porter Novell Inc., I remarked to him that it all seemed like a bad joke on Cold War policy analysts, played at the expense of the credibility of climate modeling on the eve of the global warming debate.

The first, in 2008, was comprised of a cycle of narrative paintings loosely based on a cold war era post-apocalyptic novel, On the Beach...

German painter Moritz is going full - on cold war for her memories of her East German childhood in her first solo show at Pillar Corrias.

Further entries in the series doubled down on this idea while scaling the narratives into imagined East vs West conflicts based on Cold War thinking.

After downloading the update players will be able to take on the Cold War campaign in Scenario Mode — it includes six missions on each side (NATO and WTO), adding 12 new levels overall.

This is the first and so far the only major reference on the cold war to take advantage of recently opened Russian, Eastern European, and Chinese state archives.

For example, if you write Cold War thrillers, regularly tweeting your research on Cold War spies or clandestine operations will help to establish you as an authority.

Freedman opens with several chapters on the cold war within a section that describes key New Frontiersmen, the worldview they brought to Washington, and the major issues they faced.

D - segment cars in India are on a cold war where next - generation models of almost every offering is either under the development phase or nearing their introduction in the market.

I need to rewrite the lyrics and tie it to a lesson I am teaching on The Cold War.

Also coming to the Roxie this Sunday afternoon: Double Take, Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez's experimental rumination on Cold War paranoia featuring none other than the late Alfred Hitchcock.

I look forward to Iannucci's take on the Cold War next.

Now they are screening his rarely - see The Man Between, which returns Reed to the post-war European theater, this time with the focus on cold war tensions.

BK: I'd read enough to know that Thompson had spent this year abroad in the early 1960s, reporting on Cold War issues from South America, and it occurred to me this must have been a pretty pivotal time in the life of a writer I admired.

Features all of the featurettes, interviews and archival supplements of the previous DVD release along with a Blu - ray exclusive video track of picture - in - picture interviews and trivia on the cold war and nuclear arms race.

Developed separately from the Millar - penned comic on which it's loosely based, Vaughn's film improves on that version in just about every way, delivering a smarter (but no less absurd) take on Cold War - era spy movies that embraces as many genre conventions as it breaks.

This week on home video, superheroes take on the Cold War of the sixties in «X-Men: First Class,» Brian De Palma's modern gangster classic «Scarface» debuts on Blu - ray and over a dozen TV shows from last season — from «Fringe» to «The Good Wife» to Steve Carell's farewell season of «The Office» — roll out on DVD just before the new Fall Season launches.

Actor Mark Rylance took home the award for supporting male for his work in «Bridge of Spies,» the newest release from the prolific Steven Spielberg, which centers on a Cold War — era lawyer (Tom Hanks) who's saddled with the task of trading a Soviet spy for a captured American pilot.

,» the newest release from the prolific Steven Spielberg, which centers on a Cold War — era lawyer (Tom Hanks) who's saddled with the task of trading a Soviet spy for a captured American pilot.

Based on the fact I was most intrigued on the Cold War story line, this was a good thing.

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.

Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Stimson Center, a global peace and security think tank, explains that the code of conduct is modeled on cold war measures such as the Incidents at Sea Agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which in 1972 established rules for military forces operating in close proximity.

Nick Harvey, Liberal Democrat shadow defence secretary, said: «It is evident that mainstream military opinion is questioning the wisdom, necessity and affordability of replacing Trident with another nuclear system on a Cold War scale.

The decision as to where the food is shipped is based on cold war politics.

«Ambassador Power's rhetoric is entirely hollow,» Russian affairs expert Mark Kramer, the program director of the Project on Cold War Studies at Harvard, told Business Insider earlier this week.

Not exact matches

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.

Speaking on Sunday, Fihn said the risk of nuclear weapons being used was now greater than during the Cold War.

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

There's a war for talent on Wall Street for dealmakers who work with the likes of Kraft and Unilever — and some firms will be left out in the cold.

What's clear is that the cold war between PR and Wikipedia may be easing slightly, but peace is not yet on the horizon.

On Wednesday, after May announced the expulsion of the 23 Russian diplomats — the largest number ejected by the UK since the Cold War — multiple US officials, including the US ambassador to the UN and White House staff, said the US stands in solidarity with the UK.

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.

So is it really a big surprise that Russia is using Cold War tactics paired with new technology to influence the US election considering how big of stakes are on the line?

Russia cut its military spending in 2017, a Kremlin spokesman acknowledged, just as the United States and its European allies have imposed steep sanctions on the former Cold War rival's economy.

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.

↵ 1 1Shelter was also considered a key emergency response action during the cold war in which analysts considered how to mitigate the impacts of multiple, high - yield (megaton class) detonations on urban populations.

Russian lawmakers have warned the United States that Moscow would view an airstrike on Syria as a war crime, saying it could trigger a direct military clash between the two former Cold War adversariwar crime, saying it could trigger a direct military clash between the two former Cold War adversariWar adversaries.

When the histories of Cold War 2.0 are written, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on March 4 of this year will appear as a turning point.

Anton Troianovski reports: «He also warned that Moscow would consider any nuclear attack, of any size, on it or its allies an attack on Russia that would lead to an immediate response — adopting Cold War - style overtones that appeared to ramp up Russia's posturing against the West and its allies.

-LRB-...) Bubbling Below the Surface: An Economic and Technological Cold War The chief goals of Trump's protectionist ambitions are to limit China's influence on bilateral trade and ensure the US has an upper - hand on critical technologies.

In that polemical film, based on the book he wrote of the same title, Navarro argues in racially tinged language that China is bent on global domination and is a threat to the US akin to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Cold War Kids claim an almost lore - like beginning of simple pots and pipes being banged on to create the rhythm for chanted verses sung and howled aloud on the second floor of a restaurant in Long Beach, Calif..

It reshaped Catholic teaching on human rights and made an impassioned call for peace amid the Cold War.

When you add more context, information, «Cold War» references, and to «focus on unity,» however, the numbers shift.

President Reagan had declared it the goal of the United States to win the Cold War, not just accept it as our long - term fate, and our job was to report the realities on the ground as accurately as we could....