It is already apparent that the end of the Cold War was neither the end of history nor the end of danger.
And Western Europe needed a U.S. presence against the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War.
"The fear of nuclear war has diminished partly because the risk has receded significantly with the end of the Cold War, " says Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute.
With the end of the cold war, millions of Soviet weapons came on to the market, undercutting the profits of private dealers, while a number of wars fostered by the superpowers fizzled out.
With the end of the Cold War, the threat of a massive bipolar nuclear exchange has, thankfully, abated.
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Some of the irrational pessimism currently pervading Japan seems to be the result of an identity crisis to which many Japanese have fallen victim since the end of the cold war and the achievement of Japan's goal of catching up with the West.
America was left by the end of the Cold War as the effective global power of last resort, the only superpower.
It has reduced its nuclear-weapons stockpile by 75% since the end of the Cold War and 90% since the height of the Cold War.
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The end of the cold war and its membership, since 1995, of the European Union have brought Sweden into European security affairs.
At the end of the cold war America was beset by economic anxieties and wary of military power.
The end of the Cold War created the conditions for finally realizing the promise of Wilson's foreign policy.
But the intervening years and the end of the cold war do not appear to have changed the nature of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship.
The end of the cold war, the local conflicts that followed and the growing threat of international terrorist networks have all redrawn old notions about the limits of foreign intervention.
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Whataboutism seemed to have died a natural death at the end of the cold war.
W. Bush promised restrained federal spending due to the end of the Cold War.
With the end of the cold war, some professional spies offered their talents to business.
The end of the Cold War was supposed to mean a peace dividend for U.S. taxpayers.
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