Sentences with phrase «former cold war»

Defended a multi-million dollar State cost recovery claim in Alaska involving the remediation of a former cold war White Alice Communications System (WACs) facility owned by the United States Air Force;

Her best remembered professors were former Cold War physicists, recruited to serve a new cause.

On the other side of the former Cold War border in a similar four - screen format, Gamma (1999) shows Greenham Common, a decommissioned U.S. military base in Berkshire that housed nuclear cruise missiles.

Former Cold War operatives, believing their cover intact, are being assassinated around the globe.

The dramatic changes in the Soviet Union touched off by the failed coup against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev focus attention on the inadequacies of U.S. textbooks and curricula dealing with America's former Cold War rival.

Building on the Foundations During the heady global optimism of the 1990s, Fareed Zakaria observed that while many former Cold War era dictatorships were finally democratizing, they were not successfully transitioning to the liberal constitutional model, rather to a non-constitutional «illiberal» form of democratic governance.

When an international team of former Cold War intelligence adversaries meet in a warehouse, their adventure of friendship, intrigue and betrayal has just begun.

In fact, today American astronauts are required to learn Russian, the language of their former cold war rivals.

Russian lawmakers have warned the United States that Moscow would view an airstrike on Syria as a war crime, saying it could trigger a direct military clash between the two former Cold War adversaries.

Russia cut its military spending in 2017, a Kremlin spokesman acknowledged, just as the United States and its European allies have imposed steep sanctions on the former Cold War rival's economy.

The changes, the latest in a series of new rules since the two former Cold War foes began normalizing relations in December 2014, will allow export to Cuba of some US consumer goods sold online and let US firms improve Cuban infrastructure for humanitarian purposes, the US Treasury and Commerce Departments said in a statement.

Not exact matches

[Former Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev still had to deal with the Politburo during the most dangerous moment of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis,» he told an audience of Ukrainian MPs, foreign diplomats, and journalists.

Kelly: Well, we were in a Cold War with the former Soviet Union, and tensions with Russia occur, from time to time.

Even more surprising, though unmentioned at the time, was that Shleifer's best friend, former Harvard University professor Summers, had general oversight of US aid to Russia in the aftermath of the Cold War as Deputy Treasury Secretary.

During oversight debate earlier this year, former CIA head John McCone urged that the cold - war consensus be rebuilt.

Or James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford, one of the foremost architects of late Cold War nuclear targeting strategy and nuclear force modernization.

«Trust, but verify,» Poloncarz said, quoting former President Ronald Reagan's view on arms control with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

There's an ongoing cold war between Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam and the governor - elect, Samuel Ortom over the former's plan to impose members of his cabinet...

The former Ghanaian leader said while freedom fighters like Kwame Nkrumah could not change some of the problems associated with the Cold War they made pronouncements, which kept the younger growing generation in touch with what was politically desirable.

It has been more than 60 years since the U.S. dropped two terrible bombs on Japan and more than 15 years since the cold war between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union ended, and government commitment to avoiding nuclear war may be fading.

During the Cold War, private companies such as Tronox's former parent company, Kerr - McGee Corp., operated uranium mines under U.S. government contracts, removing four million tons of ore that went into making nuclear weapons and fuel.

During the Cold War, US military attention shifted to the Arctic — the shortest route between the US and the former Soviet Union.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R for violence, profanity, sexuality and nudity) Screen adaptation of John le Carre's classic, espionage thriller, set at the height of the Cold War, about a disgraced, former head of British intelligence (Gary Oldman) who comes out of retirement to catch the Soviet mole who has infiltrated the agency's highest echelons.

During the Cold War, following a blown operation in Hungary, in which a British Intelligence agent is shot, former agent George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is pulled out of retirement.

Christoph Waltz will play former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opposite Michael Douglas as President Ronald Reagan in «Reykjavik,» a political drama about the end of the Cold War directed by Mike Newell.

In 1963, during the height of the Cold War, the United States and Russia agree to temporarily put aside their differences and combine forces when they learn that a secret criminal organization has kidnapped former Nazi scientist Udo Teller to build an atom bomb.

WHAT: In 1963, during the height of the Cold War, the United States and Russia agree to temporarily put aside their differences and combine forces when they learn that a secret criminal organization has kidnapped former Nazi scientist Udo Teller to build an atom bomb.

Former Pratt Institute President James B. Donovan is the focus of Bridge of Spies, a Cold War - era biographical drama by Academy Award - winning director Steven Spielberg that was released in theaters around the country on October...

The project draws attention to the roles that certain artefacts have played in the recent history of the Philippines, specifically in shaping the cultural legacy of former Philippine dictators Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and the absurd postcolonial ideology they enforced under the auspices of capitalist democracies during the Cold War.

The nation - state haunting here is the former East Germany, a state cornered by its political designation, one aligned to Cold War socialism and the social realism that became the sanctioned genre of that limited corner.

I grew up during the Cold War with the former Soviet Union, and as a freshman in college I watched in awe as other young people across the Atlantic Ocean took down the Berlin wall with their hands and their will.

I don't know whether you're talking about directed development or spin - off, but the former would include the space program and much of the military technology developed during the Cold War, while the latter would include, at least, the Internet, which AFAIK developed from military technology envisioned as producing a redundant communications network for battlefield use (ARPANET).

But as I learned when I talked to Norton, NARL also had strategic value in the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States.