The hot line had an important purpose: to prevent accidental war between the two competitors during the period known as the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

During the period of the Cold War, an estimated 30 million people in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union listened to him on the radio.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Russia and the United States have completed the largest spy exchange since the Cold War.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

' That's the number one kind of lingering Cold War suspicion about this program.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

And in 1961, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, John Kennedy urged people to take an active part in the future: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The technology has spread to many new countries and less stable countries since the end of the Cold War,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The action scenes are reminiscent of Cold War-era spy movies with classic fistfights and kicks, thrilling and unpretentious.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"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."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The pilot's son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., is director of the Cold War Museum in Arlington,Virginia.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

The U.S.imposed an economic embargo on Cuba in the early 1960s when it moved toward Communism and aligned with Russia during the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

"During the Cold War in particular, the U.S.and Russia produced for military purposes."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

To some,the crisis in Honduras recalls memories of Cold War battles pitting the United States and its allies against the spread of leftist groups in Central America.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"So there's a military component there. Also,in the post-Cold War conflicts the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The 1976 Games had left Montreal with a billion-dollar debt and the games were tarnished by Cold War boycotts of the 1980 Moscow and 1984 Los Angeles games.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

It was the most tangible symbol of the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

But Nye tells VOA that while the power of U.S.ideas and its ability "to deter Soviet aggression" are essential to understanding the end of the Cold War, neither are root causes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

(MOIVE SOUND) Mixed in are harrowing memories shared by a generation of World War II veterans, like DiCaprio's character, as well as the Cold War tensions affecting so many lives in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Today's nuclear threat differs from that of the Cold War, according to U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "The threat of nuclear war, nuclear attack that we grew up with in the Cold War has diminished.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

"There was de Coubertin who started the whole thing, there was Avery Brundage who saved it during the cold war era, and Samaranch who got it, if you like,from the 19th century into the 21st century."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

While calling the Cuban statement hostile and reminiscent of the Cold War, Susan Rice said the Obama administration is committed to trying to write a new chapter in relations with Cuba by engaging the Havana government.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"Prime Minister Putin still has a lot of sway in Russia and I think it is important that even as we move forward with President Medvedev, that Putin understands that the old Cold War approaches to U.S.-Russian relations are outdated,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

Clinton said the two countries, which had frosty relations during the Cold War era and beyond, still differ on some key issues but that their new partnership has the potential to be a "signature accomplishment" of the two governments.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Addressing reporters in the White House briefing room, President Obama said the agreement moves the world closer to the goal of a more secure future without such weapons, which he said represent both the darkest days of the Cold War, and the most troubling threats of our time.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26