"One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing."
-Lawrence Eagleburger
The Cold War was a period of tense relations between the U.S./NATO and the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact that lasted from approximately 1947-1991. A timeline of the main events during this war is shown above while a video outline of Cold War events is below.