Cold War

Coined by American journalist Herbert Bayard Swope in 1947, in a speech he wrote for Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), an American financier and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊld ˈwɔː/
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the Cold War

1. (historical) The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991.
   • 1992 March 30, Richard Nixon, 13:46 from the start, in Richard Nixon on ‘Inside Washington’‎, Richard Nixon Foundation, via Seoul Broadcasting System, archived from the original on 09 October 2017‎:

     Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.

   • 2005, Tony Judt, “The Politics of Stability”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

     The situation in Berlin had its uses for Moscow, of course, as for others–the city had become the primary listening post and spy center of the Cold War; some 70 different agencies were operating there by 1961, and it was in Berlin that Soviet espionage scored some of their greatest successes.

   • 2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:

     The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.

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• “cold war, n.” under “cold, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
• “cold war, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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