Sentence examples for cold war efforts from inspiring English sources

The program -- an echo of cold war efforts like Radio Free Europe, which courted Soviet satellite nations with American culture -- is a more subtle strategy than one might ordinarily credit to a monolithic entity like the State Department.

John F. Kennedy's Cold War efforts to win goodwill abroad, the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Soviet intervention in the island, and Mexico's refusal to comply with a U.S.-led embargo opened American policymakers to reforms that could close old breaches and fasten the rest of the hemisphere to the capitalist North.

One of Dr. Pigford's most memorable projects was perhaps the least successful: a cold war effort to develop a reactor to power an airplane.

But because the plant, then called Allied Chemical, produced atomic material for the cold war effort, it is part of the federal government's Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.

The government was tipped off by an informer in Hong Kong as part of a cold war effort to stop illegal immigration.

There have been some noble efforts over the years to stem the flow: notably, the post-cold-war effort led by the United States to safeguard the weapons, materials and scientific brains belonging to the former Soviet Union.

Mr. Chung and others say that if the United States does not allow South Korea to develop its own nuclear arms, it should at least restore the nuclear balance on the Korean Peninsula by reintroducing American atomic weapons, which were removed from bases in the South in 1991 in a post-cold-war effort to reduce tensions.

It was a Cold-War effort to keep up with the Soviets, whom the CIA believed were using such techniques to brainwash Americans.

The United States military and national security agencies pioneered the fundamental computer science and electronic technology behind the government's cold war spy efforts.

"Like other cold war commemorative efforts," Wiener notes, after tracking down the bronze plaque to an unmarked barn that receives an average of two visitors a year, "the pumpkin patch National Historic Landmark is remarkable primarily as a failure".

Free access to information isn't necessary or even important to toppling corrupt regimes, he says — this is a shibboleth of Reaganites and their sentimental view of Samizdat, Radio Free Europe and other cold war information efforts.