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Posted: 3/5/2013 5:53:37 AM EST
FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, North Korean youths dance before the Pyongyang Grand Theatre in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate a rocket launch after North Korea successfully fired a long-range rocket. The Cold War still rages in North Korea, and enemy No. 1 is the United States, which Pyongyang blames for making necessary its much-condemned drive to build nuclear weapons. A rich vein of propaganda, fueled by decades-old American threats, holds that North Korea remains at risk of an unprovoked nuclear attack, though Washington and others say brinksmanship is the North’s true motive. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)
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Posted: 2/27/2013 4:03:25 PM EST
FILE - This March 2, 2011 file photo shows President Barack Obama presenting a 2010 National Medal of Arts to pianist Van Cliburn during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status died early Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at his Fort Worth home following a battle with bone cancer. He was 78. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)
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Posted: 2/27/2013 12:38:24 PM EST
FILE - This Feb. 19, 1959 file photo shows pianist Van Cliburn performing for the American Association of School Administrators at the Convention Hall in Atlantic, City, N.J. Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status died early Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at his Fort Worth home following a battle with bone cancer. He was 78. (AP Photo, file)
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Posted: 2/27/2013 12:38:24 PM EST
FILE - This Sept. 21, 2004 file photo shows pianist Van Cliburn performing during at a concert dedicated to the memory of the victims of the recent Beslan school massacre in Moscow. Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status died early Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at his Fort Worth home following a battle with bone cancer. He was 78. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, file)
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Posted: 2/27/2013 12:38:24 PM EST
FILE - This July 12, 2003 file photo shows pianist Van Cliburn after performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as the Orchestra plays "Happy Birthday," on his 69th birthday at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status died early Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at his Fort Worth home following a battle with bone cancer. He was 78. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)
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Posted: 2/27/2013 12:38:24 PM EST
FILE - This April 11, 1958 file photo shows pianist Van Cliburn performing in final round of Tchaikovsky International Piano & Violin competition in Moscow. Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status died early Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at his Fort Worth home following a battle with bone cancer. He was 78. (AP Photo, file)
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Posted: 2/27/2013 12:38:24 PM EST
FILE - This Sept. 18, 2008 file photo shows pianist Van Cliburn at the presentation ceremony of the Liberty Medal that was presented to former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Philadelphia. Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status died early Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at his Fort Worth home following a battle with bone cancer. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek, file)
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Posted: 2/10/2013 8:18:21 AM EST
In this photo taken in April 1972 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Zhuang Zedong, right, shakes hands with U.S. table tennis player Glenn Cowan during a visit to the United States. Zhuang a key figure in 1971's groundbreaking "pingpong diplomacy" between China and the U.S., died at the age of 72 in Beijing on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. Zhuang won new fame by presenting a gift to Cowan, who had inadvertently boarded a bus carrying the Chinese team at the World Championships in Nagoya, Japan. Zhuang and Cowan were photographed together, creating an international sensation at a time when China and the U.S. were bitter Cold War rivals. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Xu Bihua) NO SALES
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Posted: 1/26/2013 2:53:32 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2013 file photo, current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta shakes hands with former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, center, as President Barack Obama moves to the podium during a new conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Defense Secretary hopeful, Hagel has called the U.S. embargo against Cuba "nonsensical" and anachronistic. The nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, Sen. John Kerry once held up millions in funding for secretive USAID democracy-building programs in Cuba. With the men poised to occupy two of the most important positions in Obama's new Cabinet, observers on both sides of the Florida Straits say the time could be ripe for a reboot in relations between the Cold War enemies - despite major obstacles still in the way. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 1/26/2013 2:53:32 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., arrive at Logan International Airport in Boston. The nominee for U.S. Secretary of State Kerry once held up millions in funding for secretive USAID democracy-building programs in Cuba. Defense Secretary hopeful former Sen. Chuck Hagel has called the U.S. embargo against the communist-run island "nonsensical" and anachronistic. With the men poised to occupy two of the most important positions in Obama's new Cabinet, observers on both sides of the Florida Straits say the time could be ripe for a reboot in relations between the Cold War enemies - despite major obstacles still in the way. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
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Posted: 1/16/2013 11:23:26 AM EST
In this photo made Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, Brian Preece and his wife Rebecca, of Nampa, Idaho, who want to adopt a Russian boy with Down's syndrome, speak in Moscow, Russia. From their faraway homes in the American West, two couples made repeated missions of love to Moscow, each seeking to adopt children with Down syndrome. Now, with court approval at last in hand, a political squabble with a trace of Cold War friction has derailed those plans, leaving them in anxious limbo. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Posted: 1/16/2013 11:23:26 AM EST
In this photo made Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, Jeana Bonner of South Jordan, Utah, who wants to adopt a Russian orphan with Down's syndrome, expresses her frustration with a legal dead-end that prevents her from taking custody of the girl, in Moscow, Russia. From their faraway homes in the American West, two couples made repeated missions of love to Moscow, each seeking to adopt children with Down syndrome. Now, with court approval at last in hand, a political squabble with a trace of Cold War friction has derailed those plans, leaving them in anxious limbo. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Posted: 1/16/2013 11:23:26 AM EST
In this photo made Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, Rebecca Preece of Nampa, Idaho, who wants to adopt a Russian boy with Down's syndrome, speaks in Moscow, Russia. From their faraway homes in the American West, two couples made repeated missions of love to Moscow, each seeking to adopt children with Down syndrome. Now, with court approval at last in hand, a political squabble with a trace of Cold War friction has derailed those plans, leaving them in anxious limbo. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Posted: 10/3/2012 6:23:25 PM EST
This undated photo provided by the subject shows St. Louis sociology professor Lisa Martino-Taylor. Martino-Taylor performed a study raising new concerns about secret Army testing during the Cold War that sprayed a potentially hazardous chemical into the air in St. Louis. The tests targeted predominantly black areas of the city. Now, some residents are left to wonder if those tests led to health problems for them and for relatives. (AP Photo/Courtesy Lisa Martino-Taylor)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 8:43:21 AM EST
Two pieces of the Berlin Wall are placed in front of the new cold war museum 'Black Box' at the Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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Posted: 9/20/2012 8:43:21 AM EST
A man and a woman look at photos of US President Ronald Reagan delivering a speech at the Brandenburg Gate and then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl negotiating the German reunification with Soviet leader Michail Gorbachev inside the new cold war museum 'Black Box' at the Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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Posted: 9/9/2012 4:03:56 AM EST
In this Aug. 20, 2012 photo, tourists take photos in front of old cold war signs that read left to right, "Recover the mainland" and "Military-civilian cooperation" at the picturesque village of Chin Be on Beigan in the Matsu island group, off northern Taiwan. In early July some 3,000 Matsu residents voted 57 to 43 to permit casino gambling. Their votes were clearly influenced by the promises of not only a casino, but also a tourist resort, expanded airport, roadway infrastructure, a university, and perhaps most alluring of all, a monthly payment of 80,000 New Taiwan dollars ($2,666) for every resident. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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Posted: 6/15/2012 3:35:46 AM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 1999 file photo, Russian Mi-24 helicopter gunships kick up dust near Urus Martan, 19 kilometers (12 miles) southwest of the Chechen capital Grozny. Syria has received dozens of Soviet-built Mi-8 transport helicopters and Mi-24 helicopter gunships since the Cold War times with the last deliveries taking place in the 1990s, and some of them require major repairs that can only be done by Russian repair plants. (AP Photo/ Maxim Marmur, File)
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Posted: 6/8/2012 1:05:49 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1983 file photo, U.S. Army Capt. Henry Fore, head of the graves registration team, examines a burned wristwatch found in a shallow grave containing three to four bodies at the Calivigny military training compound in Grenada, after a civilian told military authorities he saw the body of former Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and three other people burned and buried in the garbage pit. A haunting Cold War mystery is getting a fresh look on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where the body of the Marxist prime minister is still missing nearly 30 years after he was executed during a bloody coup that sparked a U.S. invasion. (AP Photo/Pete Leabo, File)
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Posted: 6/8/2012 1:05:48 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 1983 file photo, members of the U.S. Army graves registration team watch as one of their group pulls back a tarp covering the badly burned remains of one of the bodies found in a shallow grave at the Calivigny military training compound in Grenada, after a civilian told military authorities he saw the body of former Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and three other people burned and buried in the garbage pit. A haunting Cold War mystery is getting a fresh look on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where the body of the Marxist prime minister is still missing nearly 30 years after he was executed during a bloody coup that sparked a U.S. invasion. (AP Photo/Pete Leabo, File)
