But the concept really became popular during World War II and the Cold War.
He had grown up with memory of the post-war period and the Cold War.
The Hanford facility processed plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and the Cold War.
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By 1990 both Washington and Moscow had withdrawn their forces from the continent and the Cold War was over.
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Those were all the rage when I was first out of college and the Cold War was at its apex.
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Kennedy was ardent for glory and the cold war provided the arena.
The Mbeki and Zuma camps were still gripped by the mindset which had developed during the brutal apartheid war, and the Cold War.
However, as this idea slowly crept into regulations, laws, response plans, the medical industry and the Cold War, it grew into a multi-headed Hydra.
That's the story of World War II and the Cold War.
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The IOWA, which served in World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War, is 14 stories high, 887 feet long and weighs more than 45, 000 tons.
Destroyed by fire long ago, Yeager showed up at the building's ruins recently for an annual party thrown by locals to honor Pancho and the Cold War test pilots.
The exhibition, which will open at the airbase on 28 March, tells the stories of people who lived and worked there during World War II and the Cold War.
Today, Southeast Asia is largely free from divisions born of colonialism and the Cold War, and ASEAN is respected, not manipulated, by big powers (most of the time, at least).
California's huge defence and aerospace industry grew first from the second world war, then from the Korean war and the cold war (and, beyond the scope of this book, finally the Vietnam war).
Against a political background of decolonization and the Cold War, an Intergovernmental Conference on the Institutional, Administrative and Financial Aspects of Culture was convened in Venice, Italy, from 24 August to 2 September 1970.
With Germany divided and the cold war still being waged, France, both as a nuclear-armed ally and as one of the four powers occupying Germany, had a special leverage over the government in Bonn.
This loop also passes through the Sasso San Gottardo, a demilitarised tunnel that is part of a network of clandestine Swiss Army caves and tunnels built into the mountain and used as bunkers during WWII and the Cold War.
During World War II and the Cold War the military thinking was that, should an invasion happen, tens of thousands of infantry would sacrifice themselves defending Switzerland's borders, perhaps even only for a short time, while the rest would withdraw into vast bunkers in the Alps, from where they would fight on.
Where after the war Attlee established the case for the NHS, state education and a welfare state, Thatcher, after the industrial wars of the 70s and the Cold War, won the arguments for a market-based economy, the private ownership of key industries and services, limits on trade union power and a strong defence policy based on the Atlantic Alliance.
This is comparable with the peaks of isolationist sentiment after the Vietnam war and after the cold war ended.
Within a few years of defeating Germany and Japan, growing antagonism between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union and the ensuing Cold War resurrected the strategic requirement that U.S. forces be able to fight multiple, geographically dispersed, and possibly simultaneous conflicts.
The United States benefitted both during World War II and during the cold war in being the nation to develop nuclear weapons first.
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Great minds like Kennan and Oppenheimer helped win the Cold War and prevent World War Three altogether.
She, of course, is a historic figure who in many ways embodies the depth of the ties between our two nations, dating back, of course, to our shared effort in World War II and throughout the Cold War.
That 4%, don't forget, is still far below the portion of resources we committed to fighting and winning the Cold War.
His comment about World War IV indicates that the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church continues to reconsider the matter of war in the present-day, post-Cold War world, and that it is placing the Cold War into a historical perspective.
California's aerospace and defence industries had suffered greatly after the Soviet Union's collapse and the end of the cold war.
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