Cold War 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! ==Origins of the term== {{Main|Cold war (term)}} At the end of [[World War II]], English writer [[George Orwell]] used ''[[Cold war (term)|cold war]]'', as a general term, in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb", published 19 October 1945 in the British newspaper ''[[Tribune (magazine)|Tribune]]''. Contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of [[nuclear warfare]], Orwell looked at [[James Burnham]]'s predictions of a polarized world, writing: {{blockquote|Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery... James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications—that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of "cold war" with its neighbours.{{sfn|Orwell|1945}}}} In ''[[The Observer]]'' of 10 March 1946, Orwell wrote, "after the Moscow conference last December, Russia began to make a 'cold war' on Britain and the British Empire."{{sfn|Orwell|1946}} The first use of the term to describe the specific [[post-war]] geopolitical confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States came in a speech by [[Bernard Baruch]], an influential advisor to Democratic presidents,{{sfn|Gaddis|2005|p=54}} on 16 April 1947. The speech, written by journalist [[Herbert Bayard Swope]],<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/opinion/01iht-edsafire.2988871.html | title=Opinion | Language: Islamofascism, anyone? – Editorials & Commentary – International Herald Tribune | work=The New York Times | date=October 2006 | last1=Safire | first1=William }}</ref> proclaimed, "Let us not be deceived: we are today in the midst of a cold war."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Glass |first=Andrew |date=16 April 2016 |title=Bernard Baruch coins term 'Cold War,' April 16, 1947 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/bernard-baruch-coins-term-cold-war-april-16-1947-221853 |access-date=2022-11-13 |website=[[Politico]] |language=en}}</ref> Newspaper columnist [[Walter Lippmann]] gave the term wide currency with his book ''The Cold War''. When asked in 1947 about the source of the term, Lippmann traced it to a French term from the 1930s, {{lang|fr|la guerre froide}}.{{efn-ua|[[Strobe Talbott]], ''The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation'' (2009) p. 441 n. 3; Lippmann's own book is {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ydc3AAAAIAAJ |last=Lippmann |first=Walter |title=The Cold War |publisher=Harper |date=1947 |isbn=9780598864048 }} }} 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