Published in the October 19, 1945 British newspaper Tribune, George Orwell first used the term cold war in his essay “You and the Atomic Bomb.” Orwell wrote:
“For forty or fifty years past, Mr. H. G. Wells and others have been warning us that man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons…Anyone who has seen the ruined cities of Germany will find this notion at least thinkable…We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. 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 neighbors.”
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