Has the Cold War started yet? Evidence from the Royal Navy’s Monthly Intelligence Report 1946–52

Figures & data

Figure 1. Monthly Intelligence Report for April 1948.

Figure 2. The organisation of British intelligence in 1955.³⁵

Table 1. NID estimates of Soviet submarine numbers.⁵¹

Year	Operational submarines
1939 (Germany)	65
1946	120
1948	160
1949	181
1955	370
1960	420

Figure 3. ‘Russian mines known to exist’ illustration from Monthly Intelligence Report for April 1951.

Figure 4. ‘USSR cruiser SVERDLOV arriving at spithead for the coronation Naval review’ 1953.⁶⁵

Figure 5. ‘The March of Militant Communism’ which appeared alongside a similar map titled ‘The March of Nazism 1933–39’ in MIR for March 1948.