Effects Today from the Cold War
The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs today. Many of the economic and social tensions that were exploited to fuel Cold War competition and agendas. Even so, many of aspects of the Cold War existed psychologically through imagination and speculation. Technology and mass media only heightened the reliance on symbols and images that shaped the Cold War and thus creating more fear.
"Unlike previous wars, an all-out nuclear war has never been waged. It has only existed where it was talked about, by policy makers or by anti-nuclear weapons protesters. As an all-out nuclear war never occurred, it could only be imagined, through the military's combat exercises and government officials' calculations of the destructive power of nuclear weapons on the one hand; and, through the fears of anti-nuclear weapons protesters on the other. These simulations and images of nuclear war, and the fears they created, formed the essence of the Cold War. The Cold War was an imaginary war. Its battles were, therefore, by and large symbolic"
Because of the psychological aspects of the Cold War, the United States has been cautious with diplomatic relations with other nations and still battling terrorism.
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Source: https://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/holger-nehring/forgotten-impact-of-war-that-didnt-happen
"Unlike previous wars, an all-out nuclear war has never been waged. It has only existed where it was talked about, by policy makers or by anti-nuclear weapons protesters. As an all-out nuclear war never occurred, it could only be imagined, through the military's combat exercises and government officials' calculations of the destructive power of nuclear weapons on the one hand; and, through the fears of anti-nuclear weapons protesters on the other. These simulations and images of nuclear war, and the fears they created, formed the essence of the Cold War. The Cold War was an imaginary war. Its battles were, therefore, by and large symbolic"
Because of the psychological aspects of the Cold War, the United States has been cautious with diplomatic relations with other nations and still battling terrorism.
Continue to the How the Cold War Affected Us page and the US-Cuba Relations Today page to learn more...
Source: https://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/holger-nehring/forgotten-impact-of-war-that-didnt-happen