Cold War (Civ6)

Cold War
Introduced in Civilization VI
Cost	2185
Inspiration Boost	Research the Nuclear Fission technology.
Civics
Required	Ideology
Required	Ideology
Leads to	Rapid Deployment   Space Race
Leads to	Rapid Deployment   Space Race
Policies
Enabled	Containment Cryptography International Waters
Enabled	Containment Cryptography International Waters
Made obsolete	Maritime Industries Press Gangs
Made obsolete	Maritime Industries Press Gangs
Notes
Grants the ability to construct an additional Spy.

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 "The Cold War is not thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat."
– Richard Nixon

 "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."
– Winston Churchill

Historical Content

No sooner did the “Big One” get over than a “cold” war erupted, marked by economic, political, ideological, social and cultural conflict … energized by the threat of the apocryphal apocalypse … between civilization’s two superpowers. The alliance between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies had been one of convenience to defeat Hitler … as Winston Churchill famously stated: “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.” But once that was accomplished and the Soviet Union grabbed as much of Eastern Europe as it could a showdown between communism and democracy (neither in its pure form) was inevitable.

Despite calls for a shooting war to end the threat – such as “Operation Unthinkable,” code name for a plan to attack the Soviet Union developed by the British Joint Planning Staff under Churchill’s orders at the end of World War II – the new American president Truman, encouraged by advisors such as Averill Harriman and James Forrestal, decided on instead taking a hard line with Moscow … or at least, harder than Roosevelt had. In February 1946 Ambassador George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” from Moscow articulated the American policy of “containment” with which the superpower would defend itself against “Russian expansive tendencies.”

Despite the never-ending crises – the Berlin Blockade, Hungarian Uprising, Chinese civil war, Cuban Missile Crisis, bloody little wars in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan – neither power was quite willing to take the last step … primarily because both had the atomic bomb in their arsenal. Russia had tested an atomic bomb of its own in 1949; Truman announced that the United States would build a “superbomb” (hydrogen bomb); and Stalin promptly followed suit. The world stumbled along on the brink of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) until the American Richard Nixon established diplomatic relations with China in 1972, which in turn led to a policy of détente with Russia. Although thawed, the Cold War “raged” on until the Soviet Union itself broke apart and collapsed in 1991.