This speech started the Cold War – and still haunts the world 80 years on

Winston Churchill’s Fulton address was a signal for the Iron Curtain to drop, and for nukes to almost drop as well

Eighty years ago, on March 5, 1946, one of the most famous leaders of World War Two delivered a fairly short but stern message which helped lock humanity into a future of open-ended and high-risk Cold War. That was the essence of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s Fulton Speech (if we name it after the small midwestern US college town where he gave it), also known as the Iron Curtain Speech (after its key claim).

A massive political, ideological, and last but not least, military barrier had come to divide post-World…

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