<Tr> <Th> Cold War (1985--1991) </Th> </Tr> <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>

What were the major crisis of the cold war