Better Dead (from Science) than Red (2/2) [headcanon]

The second part of this post about Aperture and the Cold War. This one's mainly focused on Cave and Caroline's reactions to all of it. ...Kinda. Basically, it's mostly about Cave and Caroline and Aperture the Cold War.

( I know it's a Fallout icon, but it's still relevant. Trust me. )

Better Dead (from Science) than Red (1/2) [headcanon]

Does the Portal/Half-Life world basically parallel our world up until the late 1990s/early 2000s?

Because if so, then there is a whole untapped mine potential in exploring Aperture's role in the Cold War. Or whatever the equivalent of the Cold War was in the P/HL world.

( Notice that this is post 1 of 2. )