He helped overcome Air Force resistance to the idea, and far from heightening Cold War tensions, McElheny argues, the U-2 aircraft that resulted gave Eisenhower the information he needed to deflate the Pentagon's fears of Soviet superiority and to slow the arms race.
There were initially fears, heightened by cold war tensions, that the blackout was an act of foul play, but The Times reported that utility officials had soon "pretty well agreed upon the belief that there is substantially no chance of sabotage".
The leaden clouds, bracing breeze and brief snow flurry that seemed unfitting for a mid-April day only heightened the Cold War chill.
Bellows made several works that emphasize strenuous endeavors whose harshness is heightened by the cold.
Second, the heightening of the cold war prompted policymakers to increase defense spending.
Outside, the cold heightened my panic.
In the rodent model of neuropathic pain, there is a heightened response to cold stimuli usually generated by evaporation of a drop of acetone to the paw [ Fig. 2(B,C) bottom].
As the Cold War heightened, Toronto's Slavic studies program evolved into an important institution on Soviet politics and economics, financed by the Rockefeller, Ford and Mellon foundations.
The Soviet Union had also tried to heighten racial divisions during the Cold War, but their operatives lacked access to the technology platforms that now make it so easy.
Russia has also been active in space, heightening tensions between the former Cold War adversaries.
East-West confrontation during the cold war only heightened the sense of Russia as the alien "other".
