The cold war - was it really that cold?

Seeing the total casualties - 407,316 you may change your mind...

COLD WAR: 2 September 1945 - 21 August 1991

Deaths In Service: 407,316 ERA

http://www.aiipowmia.com/stats.html

 Here is a site dedicated to the names of the CASUALTIES OF THE COLD WAR.

http://www.3ad.org/coldwar/coldwar_casualties.htm

 Here is a book on the same subject:

 http://bostonreview.net/BR30.1/crawford.html

yoavdothan,

How did you come up with the number 407,316?

I've taken a peek at the links you provided in your answer, and they don't seem to support your case. The site http://www.3ad.org/coldwar/coldwar_casualties.htm , for instance, opens with the following words:

"While the Cold War did not generally produce casualties as other wars do, many soldiers still lost their lives while serving on freedoms frontier.  Most of the casualties died in training accidents"

I think a if there were casualties they were probably secret agents which both countries wouldn't want to expose as cold war casualties. I did find an interesting document on POW's and MIA's:

http://www1.va.gov/vetdata/docs/POWCY054-12-06jsmwrFinal2.doc (page 8)

which claims there are some .

Check this too.

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/coldwar/pmcold_summary.pdf