Cold War
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service website, the NRC headquarters in Ottawa "was a prime espionage target" during the Cold War.
Read more about this topic: National Research Council (Canada)
Famous quotes containing the words cold and/or war:
“A largess universal, like the sun,
His liberal eye doth give to everyone,
Thawing cold fear.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... near a war it is always not very near.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)