From Thirteen Days To X-Men: How Cold War Tension Became Pop Culture’s Go-To Narrative Curated By : News18.com Last Updated: August 02, 2025, 17:40 IST From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Doomsday Clock, Cold War paranoia gave pop culture its favourite script: countdowns, close calls, and the edge of annihilation The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Doomsday Clock gave pop culture a ready-made script: the standoff, the countdown, the impossible choice. When former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev responded to Donald Trump’s economic taunts with a nuclear-laced warning, invoking the Soviet “Dead Hand" system, a Cold War-era semi-automated retaliation protocol,...
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