Human Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Contemporary=== {{Main|Contemporary history}} Following the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945, the [[Cold War]] between the [[USSR]] and the United States saw a struggle for global influence, including a [[nuclear arms race]] and a [[Space Race|space race]], ending in the collapse of the Soviet Union.<ref>{{Cite journal| vauthors = McDougall WA |date=May 1985|title=Sputnik, the space race, and the Cold War|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.1985.11455962|journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists|language=en|volume=41|issue=5|pages=20β25|doi=10.1080/00963402.1985.11455962|bibcode=1985BuAtS..41e..20M|issn=0096-3402}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Plous S|date=May 1993|title=The Nuclear Arms Race: Prisoner's Dilemma or Perceptual Dilemma?|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343393030002004|journal=Journal of Peace Research|language=en|volume=30|issue=2|pages=163β179|doi=10.1177/0022343393030002004|s2cid=5482851|issn=0022-3433|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=21 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221155825/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343393030002004|url-status=live}}</ref> The current [[Information Age]], spurred by the development of the [[Internet]] and [[Artificial intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] systems, sees the world becoming increasingly [[Globalization|globalized]] and interconnected.<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Sachs JD|date=April 2017|title=Globalization{{snd}}In the Name of Which Freedom?|journal=Humanistic Management Journal|language=en|volume=1|issue=2|pages=237β252|doi=10.1007/s41463-017-0019-5|s2cid=133030709|issn=2366-603X|doi-access=free}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page