Although the federal government's support for basic research so far shows no sign of waning, academics wonder how durable that commitment will prove now that, post cold war, national security has become less of a reason to invest in science.
The key point Bush made was that it is time to put aside the doctrine of mutually assured destruction that was the bedrock of security during the Cold War when it was basically a bipolar world, with the United States and the Soviet Union on opposite sides.
That, at least, is the bucket-of-cold-water opinion of Gartner security industry analyst John Pescatore.
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The 25.5 acre (10.3 hectare) Neatishead base, near Wroxham, includes a high-security fence, a Cold War underground bunker and a helipad.
National security dynamics have shifted since the Cold War, but seeking peace through strength and fostering commerce abroad should still guide diplomacy.
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The current nuclear force is an inheritance from the Cold War, and every facet of global security has changed since that 40-year standoff ended.
That saying was coined by a Republican Senator, Arthur Vandenberg, who partnered with a Democratic President, Harry Truman, to pass landmark national security measures at the dawn of the Cold War.
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Without the option of marriage, same-sex couples in years-long, committed partnerships regularly find themselves out in the cold when negotiating joint tax filing status, Social Security survivor benefits, hospital visitation, immigration and insurance benefits.
Some Guadalajarans find cold comfort by looking north, to Monterrey, where security has been in free fall for the past two years.
The nature of the disagreement is similar to the main security controversy in the United States during the Cold War: Conservatives favored building up U.S. defense resources as the key to peace.
The Arctic is also reappearing in national-security debates after falling off military radars with the Cold War's end.
Kristensen says that during the Cold War, Japan faced a tough choice between seeking national security under the U.S. nuclear umbrella and telling the public the truth.
Vice Admiral Burkhalter opened the Roundtable with an informative look at the "big picture" -- the strategic environment in the post-Cold War era and its implications for U.S. security interests.
Those responsible for the formulation and implementation of the American security policies that led to the end of the Cold War should be heeded closely and their legacy allowed to serve as a beacon to future policy-makers.
While the foregoing litany illustrates the mindset of many in the Bush Administration on the irrelevance of a rigorous technology security policy in the so-called post-Cold War world, the specific device being used to force reckless decontrol actions through the U.S. government warrants special mention.
After World War II, a generation of far-sighted leaders forged NATO, which has given us a half-century of security, and played a strong role in ending the Cold War.
The 1990s were filled with visions of a "new Middle East" that would transform the "cold peace" Israel had achieved with Egypt and Jordan into broader economic and security ties, and that would extend to other Arab countries too.
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Core U.S. national security interests and objectives have changed very little since the end of the Cold War and the formulation of the two-theater-war sizing construct.
The Center believes that the illusions of the fleeting "Post-Cold War" era must now be replaced with a more realistic view of Western security requirements in the Post-Kuwait world.
Kazakhstan also this year chairs the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a Vienna-based post-cold-war talking shop.
The end of the cold war and its membership, since 1995, of the European Union have brought Sweden into European security affairs.
Because 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relationship has to be about more than just security and arms control.
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These key post-Cold War allies also saw it as a tangible expression of the U.S. commitment to their security in the face of assiduous Russian efforts to reassert a sphere of influence that would turn the clock back, reestablishing in some form their unhappy status under the Kremlin's thumb.
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Markus Ranum, a veteran of the network security industry and a noted critic of the cyber war hype, points to another similarity with the Cold War.
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