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It's not just Robot, but Invasion of the Dinosaurs also mentions a bunker built "back in the Cold War days". It seems that the writers' intent was indeed to imply that the Cold War was over at this point in the UNIT era; however at this time in the real world, Cold War tensions were eased by Nixon's visits to China and Russia, and the nuclear arms limitation treaties such as SALT I. The Doctor Who writers may have extrapolated from these events the eventual end of the Cold War, and had no way of knowing that relations would actually deteriorate a few years later. Doug86 ☎  04:13, July 16, 2013 (UTC)