Sentence examples for cold war technology from inspiring English sources

While the apparent use of a work of fiction as a crib sheet for the delicate process of negotiating away weapons of mass destruction might not inspire confidence in Mr Reagan's grasp of geo-political detail, Mr Clancy was at least highly rated as an observer of Cold War technology.

By the start of the Korean War in 1950, Stanford was the single best prepared institution to help NSA, CIA, and various military branches on classified Cold War technology research.

Even better, malaria is responsible for killing about a million people a year, and if this can be made to fight that epidemic, it would be a really great use of a cold war technology.

Area 51, as the newly declassified material makes clear, was a test site for Cold War technology, including the U-2 spy plane.

"There is waste, there are obsolete programs to be sunsetted, there is Cold War technology that we need not be investing in any longer," Kramer said.

So these commercial enterprises rising from cold-war technology, supplanting an old fort, were working monuments to the end of the cold war, monuments that do not look back.

In interviews, he has said that the agency's real problem is that during the cold war, its technology was far ahead of the rest of the world.

The rise of OPEC, the end of the Cold War, the technology revolutions and other momentous turns of history have never shaken the core policy of preserving and protecting Israel and access to oil at all costs (and those costs are nearly unimaginably large).

Thus, cryptography, which powers much of today's electronic commerce, advanced in the background of the second world war, while packet switching – a cold war-era technology that made the internet possible – was to guarantee resilient communications in the event of a nuclear attack.

By the end I found myself rethinking not only the role that architects played during one of the most murderous and destructive periods in human history, but also almost everything that came immediately after it, from the cold war conviction that technology could deliver a better way of life to the causes of suburban sprawl.

The idea fit in with American youthful idealism as well as with the bipartisan ethos present in government during the Cold War, and the technology was in the works.