Fulton, Missouri, USA, 1946: In his famous speech Winston Churchill used the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the Cold-War division of Europe, which attracted immediate international attention. Thomas Gold, famous astrophysicist, had an interesting observation about the Iron Curtain: "I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't."