And it was at the height of the Cold War.

It provided continuity throughout the dark period of the cold war.

China has always honoured this commitment, be it during the cold war era, when we were faced with the nuclear threat or nuclear blackmail, or in the post cold war period, when we witnessed dramatic changes in the international security situation.

During the cold war and since its end, the Conference has been a forum of dialogue and confidence building.

During the early '80s, I spent a lot of time in Central America, which was engulfed by civil wars that straddled the ideological divide of the Cold War.

They've been experiencing an identity crisis since the end of the Cold War.

We talked about this going all the way back to the end of the Cold War.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union transported the missile into Cuba, which almost led to the US Soviet nuclear war.

And occurrences of civil war and repression have declined since the end of the Cold War.

If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one millionth of the energy released at that moment.

What happened was, during the Cold War, the U.S. Navy had a system that was secret at the time, that they used to track Russian submarines.

As Dr. Stedman mentioned yesterday, during the cold war era, there was a pessimistic prediction that anywhere from between 15 and 50 countries would some day possess nuclear weapons.

But during the cold war they were also used for position taking in negotiating processes.

Ice in my ice chest melted within hours, and it was pretty miserable.

A cold war is not as good as a cold peace, but a cold peace is still better than a hot war.

Now, during the Cold War, that may have been a defensible position for the United States to take.

The Media Cold War

Asia was one of the two principal theaters of World War II, and again shared centrality with Europe during the Cold War. Indeed, the period s two greatest conflicts the wars in Korea and Vietnam were fought on the Asian mainland.

The consensus dating back to the first special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, which seemed to be developing in the post cold war period, is not holding well.

Thailand s demographics also changed. The Cold War curriculum of induced unity and stability has no relevance for today s schoolchildren indeed, most university students nowadays were born after the Cold War ended.

A New Cold War Order?

Learning from the Cold War

Do you want to view the pandemic threat the way back in the 1950s people viewed the civil defense issue, and build your own little bomb shelter for pandemic flu?

This could bring existing arms control and disarmament efforts to naught and, some fear, bring the international order back to the time of the Cold War.

The former Cold War rivals should commit themselves irreversibly to bringing down the number of warheads in their arsenals to hundreds, not thousands.

If we are to become a relevant organization again, we must move beyond cold war era issues and a business as usual approach to our work.

Developed countries strong postwar investment performance dispelled fear of secular stagnation. But this occurred after a world war that had created huge pent up demand for new equipment, transport infrastructure, and household appliances, together with a military industrial complex that armed the West during the Cold War.

Over the past 20 years, no geo political space has undergone as dramatic a transformation as that between the Atlantic and the Urals. In our lifetimes, we have seen a welcome change from the darkest days of the Cold War, when a devastating conventional and nuclear war in Europe was a real possibility, to a new era in which no state faces this type of existential threat.

NEW YORK We are in a protracted period of international transition, one that began more than two decades ago with the Cold War s end. That era of strategic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union gave way to one in which the US possessed far greater power than any other country and enjoyed an unprecedented degree of influence.

Strategic framework for the period 2006 2007

The Holy See had expressed its limited acceptance of nuclear deterrence during the cold war on the clear understanding that deterrence merely represented a step towards progressive nuclear disarmament.

Consider how many nuclear weapons there are an estimated 16,300 around the world, with 1,800 on high alert and ready for use on short notice. Nearly 25 years after the Cold War s end, we remain stuck with its strategic legacy Nuclear weapons continue to underpin the international security policy of the world s most powerful states.

Indeed, the Georgian war antagonized not only the west, but also China, which has a vital strategic interest in maintaining the post Cold War geo strategic settlement. China, after all, has no desire to see a Soviet Reunion on its border.

It's a cold war, really.

The Unfinished Cold War

If you remember the Cold War, it was a very hard game, but a stable one played only by two players, which allowed for some coordination between the two superpowers.

In brief, the decisive axis of the new order increasingly involves the United States and the People s Republic of China. The Sino American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

We knew that during the war.

Is Cold War II Underway?

The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.

But it is not the European Union that is being provocative. It is not Germany, France, and Italy that are invading their neighbors.

I mean this went through thick and thin, through war and peace, through boom times and recessions.

Recalling that the maintenance of nuclear weapons on high alert was a feature of cold war nuclear postures, and welcoming the increased confidence and transparency since the cessation of the cold war,

Nonetheless, the US seems destined to remain the world s most important actor for the foreseeable future. But today it is an actor without a script it lacks a strategic guide comparable to the Cold War s containment doctrine to prioritize policy.

We came out of the end of the Cold War in despair.