They say Russia never used gas as a political weapon even during the Cold War, so it's hardly likely to do so now.

BBC: Europe diary: The gas man

This disregards an ominous reality: Virtually every Soviet nuclear weapon pointed at us during the Cold War is still pointed at us.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

First of all we developed something called the Stockpile Stewardship Program, under which computers would simulate testing and hopefully enable annual certification of the stockpile, and eventually, the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) to actually supplant existing warheads, the first comprehensive, soup-to-nuts redesign of a nuclear weapon since before the end of the Cold War.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Senator Kyl on nuclear deterrence

If a weapon goes off by accident, as they sometimes nearly did in the cold war's early years, who is to say that enemies will not be blamed and bombed.

ECONOMIST: The ostrich��s view of the world

When Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 by Jonathan Cape, it inaugurated a tradition for the spy hero: individualistic, unconcerned with class and handy with a deadly weapon, within a society that would attach this image to many sides of what we know as the Cold War.

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