The eighties were the final decade of the Cold War — but nobody knew that at the metre . The Soviet Union looked unstoppable , and few out-of-door observer saw its collapse get . So it ’s not surprising that portion of eighties skill fable included Cold War futures . Here are 1980s vision of a hereafter where the Cold War never ends .
compose in 1982 , this seminal Dredd level is about the encroachment of Mega - City One by its Soviet counterpart East Meg One . After nuking the city , Soviet earth troops come flooding in , force Dredd and a team of Judges to fight a run - and - gun guerrilla warfare with them . by nature , race murder and other war offence are happily commit by both side .
In Pournelle ’s serial of future account novel ( several of which were written in the 1980s ) , a timeline is established in which the Cold War does n’t end till the 2000s , at which level the United States and a still - strong USSR shape the titular confederation , allowing them to jointly dominate the planet .
This 1985 novel situate a perilous political climate in 2005 . The Cold War never ended , leave the USA and USSR poised on the brink of nuclear warfare . The situation is further refine when a mysterious asteroid enters near - globe orbit , trigger off an international airstream to repose claim to its secret .
In Robinson ’s 1984 debut novel , America is crippled by a 1987 Russian nuclear flack , giving hike to a semi - bucolic smart set whose development is restricted on an ongoing basis via onerous international treaties imposed by a victorious USSR .
In Bova ’s 1985 novel , the early twenty-first century find America draw back from the blank space wash , let the Russians to monopolize the material and strategic potential of the solar scheme . Only a blackguardly billionaire pirate named Dan Randolph has the chutzpah to knot with the all - powerful Russians over the huge resources be adrift around in space .
Kicked off by 1985’sEclipse , Shirley ’s trilogy present an former 21st century scenario in which America suffers an economical flop , prompting a resurgent Soviet Union to invade Western Europe . The resulting sociopolitical chaos enables the ascendance of the Second Alliance , a private multinational with less - than - benevolent intentions .
In this gleefully prurient 1989 schlockfest star Brigitte Nielsen , Julian Sands and Brian Cox , the Soviets and the Americans are still at each other ’s throats in 2104 . Nuclear war and resource shortages on Earth have forced both nations to establish outposts and mining facilities on the moonlight . A murder at an American facility that overlaps with Soviet soil forces Nielsen ’s NASA cop to put to work with Sands ’ KGB factor . Tensions naturally flare .
The movie adaptation takes place against a setting of tension between the Americans and Soviets , making it meaning that cosmonaut from the two nations are forced to cooperate to find out what happened to the ship from the first movie .
In Miller ’s paradigm - shifting 1986 comics miniseries , a grizzled and senesce Bruce Wayne emerge from retirement to fight offence in a near - future , dystopian Gotham City . He face just as much opposition from the US government as he does from the criminals , however , as the Cold War is still ongoing and America ’s intelligibly rolled back a civil liberty or ten in the course of fighting it .
Written in 1985 by Brian Stableford and David Langford , this is a fancied ‘ future story ’ book that gets some things right but also predicts that the Soviet Union would last till 2800 and remain a major world player .
In this 1987 ABC miniseries , the Soviet leadership detonates nukes in the ionosphere over America , create an EMP that destroy national communications systems and cripple major power grids . The resulting failure of defensive capabilities forces America to surrender . Within a ten of this defeat , the US is occupied by Eastern Bloc forces . The series colour over the takeover , focusing or else on the troth of the American people in the year after it happens .
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This exceptional plot line ( aired in 1984 ) sees the Doctor and his comrade arrive on Earth in the year 2084 , only to encounter homicidal tone-beginning drones and underwater seabases abound with atomic missiles . It turns out that the Cold War is still on and all of human society has gravitate to one of two opposing ‘ power bloc ’ . Most of the electric discharge takes position on one of these seabases as it machinate for what may be a drill or an actual nuclear hit . by nature , these troubled waters are further muddy by the show of the Doctor ’s old friends : the Silurians and the Sea - Devils .
The Cold War is still ongoing in the background of John Carpenter ’s classic 1981 sci - fi actioner ( set in 1997 ) in which the President ’s plane crash into the maximum security system prison that used to be Manhattan . His plotted finish was a three - way summit with China and the Soviet Union , intend to defuse tensions between America and the Eastern Bloc force . Soldier - turned - outlaw Snake Plissken is ( forcibly ) recruited to extract the President in time for the peak .
Thanks to AngrierGeek for pointing this one out ! In Mike Baron and Steve Rude ’s Nexus comics , the Soviet Union not only did n’t fall , it controls tons of planets as the Sov Empire .
Thanks to MuseZack for reminding us of this one — in William Gibson ’s original screenplay for Alien 3 , the Union of Progressive Peoples ( basically , a future Soviet Union ) is the main opponent to the corporations that require to overwork the xenomorph biota . The UPP is trapped in a Cold War with the Colonial Administration , which is basically a protraction of the actual Cold War .
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