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The Cold War was given that name because the two opposed factions in that war, NATO vs. the Warsaw Pact, did not directly attack each other, unlike our previous experience of warfare. It was, therefore, cold in a purely metaphorical sense, it did not have to do with the weather. Both sides were afraid that any direct confrontation would result in nuclear war and the destruction of the human race, which was considered to be too high a price to pay for winning a war. Therefore, various forms of indirect attack, subversion, war by proxy, and so forth, were used instead.

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