<Tr> <Th> Frozen conflicts </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Timeline Conflicts Historiography </Th> </Tr> <P> At the end of World War II, English writer George Orwell used cold war, as a general term, in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb", published 19 October 1945 in the British newspaper 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: </P> <Dl> <Dd> 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 . </Dd> </Dl>

The cold war outline map europe during the cold war