One that keeps companies like Panasonic and even Sony slightly left out in the cold.

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Although overall production has fallen slightly since the peak of the cold war, the number of companies involved has grown.

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Research into seabed minerals has a long and slightly conspiratorial history, starting in the Cold War with the United States and the Soviet Union surveying the oceans ahead of possible future conflict.

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The Cold War relic reminds one of nothing more than a slightly updated version of the outpost in the 1951 movie The Thing From Another World.

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