There's also a script of theirs about the cold war, called 62 Skidoo.
Preparations for a now nearly forgotten salvo of the cold war, called Operation Telstar, were under way.
That plan had been described as the most significant rearrangement of the American military since the cold war, calling for the number of Army troops in Europe to be cut to about 24,000 by the end of 2008.
Contingency plans dating back to the Cold War include calls for an American military response, led by a Navy carrier group, if a Chinese fleet sails into the Taiwan Strait.
John Lewis Gaddis, the Yale historian and pre-eminent scholar of the cold war period, calls the last decade or so an "age of regression," meaning that the popular notion of a "unipolar" world — one in which the United States was supposed to have no serious economic or military competitors — gave way to the realization that the best America could aspire to was a stable balance of power.
A 1987 remake of the film, a political Cold War thriller called No Way Out, starred Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman.
Speaking here at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Mr. Kerry harked back to the creation of the Department of Defense and the Air Force at the onset of the cold war in calling for another transformation of the military, to "prepare it for the risks and the tasks of a new era".
When the U.S. actually entered into the Cold War, Kennan called his earlier support of such a war "the greatest mistake I ever made".
In 1961, in the grip of the Cold War, Eisenhower called to Americans to hold science in respect but to beware the "danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite".
Unfortunately, the lone female candidate, fast-rising Carly Fiorina, was the most militaristic contender, even returning to the Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) insanity of the Cold War in calling for ramping up the nuclear triad in apparent preparation for a war of human annihilation with Russia.
