It was even reflected in TV (after all, who could forget Rose Nylund’s letters to Reagan and Gorbachev in The Golden Girls?) Popular culture of the time reflected this constant anxiety, in films such as Wargames and The Day After, and in numerous songs by a wide variety of artists. Nuclear war seemed a very real possibility. President Ronald Reagan famously branded the Soviet an “Evil Empire.” For many years, the specter of possible military conflict between the two superpowers weighed heavily on the minds of people all over the world. dramatically escalated its military machine. In response to the massive buildup of weapons and troops by the Soviets, the U.S. Tensions between the Soviet Union and United States were particularly high in the late ‘70s well into the ‘80s. With the escalating tensions between Russia and the US and Europe over the developing situation in Ukraine, thoughts of the Cold War surge back into focus for those of us who lived through it.
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