Second Cold War

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Proper noun

Second Cold War

1. Alternative form of Cold War II
   • 1993, Mike Bowker, Robin Brown, From Cold War to Collapse: Theory and World Politics in the 1980s, →ISBN:

     Although developed around the First Cold War of 1947-53, the same debate, about causes and responsibility, elaborated simultaneously rather than sequentially, can be identified with regard to the Second Cold War, of 1979-85.

   • 2004, Olav Njolstad, The Last Decade of the Cold War, →ISBN:

     For the true aficionados there is, in addition, the impact imprecisely) as the new or Second Cold War of the 1980s.

   • 2013, Michael Herman, Gwilym Hughes, Intelligence in the Cold War: What Difference Did it Make?, →ISBN, page 5:

     Recent evidence about the events of 1983 provides an opportunity to explore the risk of nuclear war and the role of misperception in Soviet–American relations during the 'Second Cold War'

   • 2017, Mark. G Rolls, The Arms Dynamic in South-East Asia During the Second Cold War:

     Moreover, this pressure can also be regarded as a bond between the Second Cold War period and the years preceding and succeeding it containing as it does, vital elements of continuity and change.