Why is the cold war called the cold war?
See wikipedia Origins of the term The first use of the term “Cold War” to describe post-World War II geopolitical tensions between the Soviet Union and the US has been attributed to American financier and US presidential advisor Bernard Baruch. In South Carolina on April 16, 1947, Baruch delivered a speech (composed by journalist Herbert Bayard Swope) in which he said, “Let us not be deceived: we are today in the midst of a cold war.” Columnist Walter Lippmann also gave the term wide currency, with the publication of his 1947 book titled Cold War. The term had previously been used by George Orwell in an essay entitled “You and the Atomic Bomb” which appeared in the British newspaper Tribune on October 19, 1945. However, while contemplating a world living in the shadow of nuclear war and warning of a “peace that is no peace”, which he called a permanent “cold war”, Orwell did directly refer to that war as the ideological confrontation between the Soviet Union and the western powers.
