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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Reaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
- Attempted
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- Nov 07, 2020
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.
- Nov 07, 2020
Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women were involved in the Second World War, the Cold War, the civil rights movement.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He knew defeating Russia couldn't be accomplished without laying the groundwork.
- Dismantling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.
- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in peace and war, from the Vietnam and Cold War eras, to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the emergence of China.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.
- Cold
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.
- Shut Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.
- Planning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In particular, Kissinger was a key player during a transformative period of the imperial presidency, in the 1960s and '70s, when the Vietnam War undermined the traditional foundations on which it had stood since the early years of the Cold War: elite planning, bipartisan consensus, and public support.
- Effect
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- Nov 07, 2020
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
- Cold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
- Pollution
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
- Nov 07, 2020
Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
- Forward-Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
While President Obama raised the hopes of Americans and Cubans alike with a forward-looking opening in diplomatic, commercial and people-to-people ties, President Trump is turning back the clock to a tragically failed Cold War mindset by reimposing restrictions on those activities.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020