Television has had a major impact on the world. People are watching reality television shows, and are looking past the problems in the world and looking towards their own personal problems. This is much like the Cold War scenario. Around 1953 about half of the continental US had televisions. These televisions broadcasted not only the war, but also offered entertainment to get people's minds off their work and the tragedy of the world. However this new technology not only added television, it also added more fashion. Fashion that not only changed people's appearances but also the way people looked at life. Like almost all modern day wars, this one specifically dealt with technology.  During the Cold War, new missiles were being developed like the ICBMs. However, more weapons were being developed and the race for the moon began, technology grew in a good way. Without a doubt, if it wasn't for the cold war then we would never have had computers. We would never have invented the microchip and things like cell phones, pagers, and even something as simple as a calculator.  So one could say that this new technology gave us a lot more deadly weapons, it also however gave us many modern day appliances that we use nearly everyday in our life where would we be without hot pockets. Espionage is something that goes hand and hand with war. The enemy is always trying to get spies into the opposing side and most of the time they do succeed. And with the Cold War there is no exception.  For example, clever spy named Nikolai Khokhlov from the KGB killed people with what looked like a cigarette case. In fact though bullets came out of the false cigarettes filled with poison that eventually killed its victim. Other weapons included a gun thin enough to be slipped into a newspaper and fired off, and a key chain gun that could shoot a .32 bullet that could launch gas off. With these inventions it was no wonder that espionage was everywhere. Also because of the espionage we got some good spy movies to like James Bond. For nearly as long as there have been nuclear weapons, there has been opposition to them. Some governments tried to use them as anti-nuclear objects in the Cold War. Even the US to this day has spent money developing bombs.  In fact they have spent more than 5.5 trillion for doing this. With this money, the stack of bills spent for nuclear weapons would stretch to the moon and nearly back to Earth.  That's a lot of money. Think of how may people it could feed or how many roads could be built with it.  It's amazing how much money one country will invest in order to gain the upper hand in technology.