When the Cold War ended, many air forces ditched their MiG-23s, whereas hundreds of MiG-21s are still in service two decades later, and production of Chinese-built versions only recently stopped.
During the Cold War, the United States Air Force conducted a classified feasibility study in the late 1950s called Project Horizon, to construct a manned military outpost on the Moon, which would have been home to a bombing system targeted at rivals on Earth.
And by the weekend there was a cold war chill in the air.
Andrew P. Smith of Subterranea Britannica, an organization that investigates artificial underground structures, said about 1,600 Cold War bunkers, excluding World War II air raid shelters, were built in Britain at a cost of more than £1 billion.
At the height of the Cold War, the Paris and Farnborough Air Shows could usually be relied on to produce new military products every year.
Prokhorov is relatively young, wealthy, charming, tall, athletic and adventurous, a modern-day renaissance man with an air of cold war mystique.
Such expulsions, which were a regular feature of the Cold War, have taken on the air of ritualized formality, and represent more symbol than substance.
As a result of the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the fading of Cold War threats, the modern German air force composed of both fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft is focused primarily on its role within the defense structures of NATO and the European Union.
Unfortunately the book turned out to be a painful bore: a paint-by-numbers account of American neoconservatism and how to win the hot war on the ground with the terrorists and the cold war of ideas in the air with Islamic fundamentalism.
While there is no disputing the contemporary facts and news stories — the Second World War, rationing, harsh government treatment of conscientious objectors ("conchies"), racial discrimination, homophobia, Cold War militancy, McCarthyism, the Rosenbergs, air-raid drills, Korea — with which Greer sketches the background of his story, this background has a papery feel to it.
Read the history of the cold war, excellently recounted on an open-air exhibition of panels lining the sidewalks of Friedrichstrasse.
