the Cold War
noun
: the nonviolent conflict between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union after 1945
the era of the Cold War
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Built during the Cold War, these bases were deliberately located far from the coast out of security concerns.
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Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 June 2024
Policing Radicals: Britain vs. the United States British policing of Communism before and into the Cold War has often been compared favorably with America’s witch-hunt hysteria.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
The system, called Perimeter, is an automatic nuclear weapons control system from the Cold War that played into the nation's doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), but the system remains functional today, which Bendett notes as an indication of where Russia's thinking lays.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 21 June 2024
At the height of their revolutionary tour, the band releases what will become the defining theme for the end of the Cold War – a ballad that circles the globe as the Wall comes down and resonates to this day as an anthem for peace.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 June 2024
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Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 June 2024
Policing Radicals: Britain vs. the United States British policing of Communism before and into the Cold War has often been compared favorably with America’s witch-hunt hysteria.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
The system, called Perimeter, is an automatic nuclear weapons control system from the Cold War that played into the nation's doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), but the system remains functional today, which Bendett notes as an indication of where Russia's thinking lays.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 21 June 2024
At the height of their revolutionary tour, the band releases what will become the defining theme for the end of the Cold War – a ballad that circles the globe as the Wall comes down and resonates to this day as an anthem for peace.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 June 2024
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