Cold War

The Cold War is a term most commonly use to refer to the currently ongoing period of geopolitical tension between the rivalling superpowers of Barenia and Phoenicia, and their respective allies in the Tavaric Treaty Organization and Phoenician Realm. Political scientists do not fully agree on its starting point, but the period is generally considered to have begun at the end of the Great Serican War at the signing of the Treaty of Gamtoi on 21 September 1947. The term  is used because there has been no large-scale direct military conflict between the two superpowers, but they engage in indirect conflicts across the globe by means of. The conflict is based primarily around the geopolitical struggle for global influence between these two superpowers and to a lesser extent, their allies. Aside from continuing escalation in the development of atomic weapons and delivery methods, the struggle for dominance has been expressed in, , propaganda campaigns, espionage, , rivalry at sports events, and in its most modern iteration, in the ongoing Space Race and colonization of extratellurian bodies.