Second Cold War (Indeed a different World)

The  Second Cold War  is a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States with NATO and others) and powers in the Asian Bloc (China and its allies in the Hanoi agreement). Historians have not fully agreed on the date it has begun as some claim that an unofficial cold war was already happening years before 2009, but 2009 is common. It is "cold" because there is no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although major regional wars like in the First cold war are very likely to happen. The Second Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against The USSR, leaving the US as the sole superpower and United China as a having the potential to be a Superpower.



The two superpowers never engaged directly until present time in full-scale armed combat but they each armed heavily in preparation of an all-out nuclear World War IV. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that deterred an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to total the destruction of the attacker - the doctrine of mutually assured destruction or MAD. Aside from the development of the two sides' nuclear arsenals, and deployment of conventional military forces, the struggle for dominance was expressed via proxy wars around the globe, psychological warfare, propaganda and espionage, and technological competitions such as the renewed Space Race.