While the "cold boot" attack had been tried on desktop PCs and laptops, Mr Muller said the trio were the first to try it on phones.
As nuclear arsenals grew, each of the two main sides in the Cold War gained second strike capability, rendering a surprise attack moot.
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The shocking state of large swaths of the existing Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which our late president rightly implemented as a Cold War hedge to ensure rapid military mobilization after a surprise attack or for speedy logistics re-supply in the event of regional civil emergencies.
U.S. military analysts figured out during the early days of the Cold War that no effective defense against a large-scale nuclear attack was likely to be feasible.
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During the Cold War, when the United States faced the threat of a nuclear attack, U.S. administrations made clear that any strike would prompt an all-out retaliation.
The threat of an EMP attack was not taken seriously by US military planners during the Cold War because they were concerned with the primary Soviet threat to annihilate the US and its allies by launching several thousand nuclear warheads against them.
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Like Nixon in 1952, Agnew served as the attack dog and allowed Nixon, who had remade himself from an avid Cold Warrior into a foreign policy expert, to maintain his new image.
In the ensuing 10 years, some of our political leaders basked in the glory of winning the Cold War and saw little need for protecting Canada and the United States from an airborne attack.
Having stood watch in the dark and the cold and travelled through convoys surrounded by foreign nationals, any of whom may want to attack us, I can attest to the difficulty of judgment calls.
It was to help the UK to assess the risk of an attack using biological agents by providing important information about their likely dispersion in the open air during the Cold War.
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