Distinctive features ofColdWar

The Cold War was an historical phenomenon categorised by non-combative warfare due to the ever-present threat of nuclear weaponry armament. It began post World War II between what was the Soviet Union and the United States of America (US), as a mutual condemnation of each other's social, political and economic ideals embodied in polar ideologies: communism and capitalism under a liberal democratic state. As the Cold War developed, it became used by the US to …

…about money, envy of resources, religion or ethnicity. The end of the Cold War has witnessed the ease of strategic tensions across the globe, arms control, and progressive nuclear disarmament. These positive steps in the name of peace should indicate the shift in human energies and passion from war to the promotion of its prevention after witnessing the destruction of so many and the potentiality of a complete destruction in the advent of nuclear warfare.