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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In 1972, American maverick Bobby Fischer first breached the frontier by winning the world championship at the height of the Cold War.
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Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 5 Aug. 2025
News anchors on most every station were reporting that the onerous Berlin Wall, one of the last remaining bastions of the Cold War, was falling.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
The comments at the time raised concerns that Trump would spark a new arms race by increasing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons, which had been reduced through arms control agreements with Russia after the end of the Cold War.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
One year ago, Russia and the United States conducted the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, freeing journalist Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from Russian custody.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
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Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 5 Aug. 2025
News anchors on most every station were reporting that the onerous Berlin Wall, one of the last remaining bastions of the Cold War, was falling.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
The comments at the time raised concerns that Trump would spark a new arms race by increasing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons, which had been reduced through arms control agreements with Russia after the end of the Cold War.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
One year ago, Russia and the United States conducted the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, freeing journalist Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from Russian custody.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
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