In two thousand six, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advised President George W.Bush to base a missile defense system in Europe.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

Oahu served as the command base for American operations in the Pacific during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

One time,after World War Two ended, he brought his radio show to soldiers waiting at a base in California to return to civilian life.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The two astronauts explored an area that they called Tranquility Base. Lack of space in their lunar spacecraft,the Eagle, forced them to leave equipment on the surface.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

The panda genome has about two billion five hundred million base pairs.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Listeners on Earth heard the countdown from Tranquility Base: "Three,two,one .

VOA: special.2009.07.15

A car bomb explodes outside a small NATO military base in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Then in September, two explosive-laden vehicles penetrated the base of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia,known as AMISOM, resulting in the death of 17 peacekeepers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Among the dead is the top An eyewitness at the Mogadishu airport, which is situated next to the AMISOM base, says the two cars entered the compound and then exploded near the petrol station located in the base.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17