In many ways, nuclear weapons represent both the darkest days of the Cold War, and the most troubling threats of our time.
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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It means strengthening power systems with smarter designs to prevent the multi-day outages that left hundreds of thousands in the cold and dark for days following the storm.
This is the annual rite of spring that American college basketball fans live for after they've trudged through the cold, dark days of winter.
Recorded in 1953 by his familiar all-star trio, the song is beautiful, the pace luxurious, and the scenery that it conjures up is New York in the first full days of cold, with the leaves changing and the city settling-in for the end of the year.
Meanwhile, there is an issue requiring serious vetting whose problems date back to the bad old Cold War days.
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Police, sheriff's deputies and federal agents swarmed into the area, working through a weekend blizzard, but the trail was cold for days.
But those targets were chosen in the early days after the cold war.
Today, the Washington Post reported, not for the first time, that taking zinc will shorten the duration a cold by three days in adults.
Peak electricity demand in the UK comes on cold winter days.
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Apologies for my lack of posting over the last ten or so days but I started out with a cold the week before Christmas and wound up with pneumonia which, as you probably know, is not something you want to ignore.
This is combined with an understanding of how heat is lost from the human body during cold and windy days.
Photographers can work on the slopes of Vail or Aspen, shivering through long, cold days in exchange for spectacular views and a stellar commute down the slope.
After that, the study subjects were quarantined for six days and given cold-virus-containing nose drops at a dose about 125 times the amount that it takes to infect cells in a laboratory.
In a series of videos on the Web site of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, he discussed his role in the early days of DNA sequencing.
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Long gone are the days of spartan dormitories and cold showers kids in the private sector now have fabulous science labs and sports facilities, and access to a huge range of subjects and activities.
Mr Saakashvili had to tread carefully in Ajaria because of a sprawling ex-Soviet base near Batumi, a legacy of the days when this was a cold-war frontier between the Red Army and Turkey, a NATO member.
Forecasters say the cold weather will continue for the next few days.
He had no idea how to upgrade the wiring, and in the following days he began to eat his food cold.
What I have left out is the cruel fact that the BMW 650i convertible came to me one of the cold, chilly weeks of this mild winter, and I was hesitant to drop the top on days of inclement weather.
Forecasters expect the cold snap to continue - and worsen - over coming days.
The longest spells of settled weather occur during calm but cold days in winter.
The Cold Spring Harbor district used its built-in snow days after Superstorm Sandy hit the region Oct. 29, she said.
In recent days many parts of the UK have been hit by cold weather more akin to winter.
It was a flame that survived the Pusan Perimeter and landed at Inchon and even during those cold dreaded days and nights at Chosan, it still continued to burn.
Containing linseed, sun raisins, liquorice and rum, Mrs Beeton wrote that the "worst cold is generally cured by this remedy in two or three days".
He was also aware of a more immediate risk in those cold-war days: a smaller visitor (such as the one that had exploded over Siberia in 1908, flattening 2, 000 square miles of forest) might be mistaken by either superpower for a nuclear detonation and trigger Armageddon.
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