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Form of hostility that never heats up?
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cold war
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The Cold War (1979–1985) refers to the phase of a deterioration in relations between the Soviet Union and the West arising from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. With the election of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 , ...
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n. The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, 1945–91.
Usage examples of cold war.
They're small, by our standards, because they're left over from the Grayson-Masada cold war, but there are a lot of them, and they've been heavily refitted and rearmed.
It was instinctive, this need for secrecy and caution, a lesson I had learned the hard way during the Cold War.
Even in the Cold War against Soviet Russia in the late twentieth century, it could be argued that the democracies of Old Earth won by waging an economic war, and a war of ideas, while constantly preparing for real war.
Historians argue as to the extent that the cold war invaded American life, but all agree that the looming threat of communism and nuclear annihilation put a damper on the celebration of American prosperity in the postwar era and the 1950s.