1.   Carter had gone to Pyongyang with the hopes of defusing the nuclear standoff on the Korean peninsula.

2.   Clearly, the relatively stable U.S.-Soviet nuclear standoff has evolved into a less stable situation, experts say.

3.   Clinton said that cooperation with China had become even more important in light of the nuclear standoff between India and Pakistan.

4.   CNN proves itself equal to the task of chronicling, and illuminating, the decades-long nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union.

5.   Democracy won over communism in the Cold War, but new nationalistic and ethnic horrors replaced the nuclear standoff.

6.   In the age of nuclear standoff, its credibility was unquestioned, and it won the Cold War without ever firing a shot.

7.   Now that the nuclear standoff is over, the United States has found a new use for its warning systems.

8.   Secrecy is also intended to keep the enemy off guard, which can make a nuclear standoff more dangerous.

9.   The nuclear standoff between Washington and Moscow is over.

10.   Conspicuously missing from the communique was any mention of either sanctions or incentives designed to persuade India and Pakistan to step back from their nuclear standoff.