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Sun 20 Mar, 2022 01:08 pm
The so-called "red phone" is not exactly a phone. It is simply a direct thread by which the President of Russia and the President of the United States can communicate immediately, without any delay. It was created in case of a nuclear crisis and to avoid a catastrophe that, in the 1960s, was on the verge of disappearing.
What is the meaning of the part in bold?
Thanks.
Could someone please help? Thanks.
@tanguatlay,
I don't see any part in bold.
@roger,
roger wrote:
I don't see any part in bold.
The so-called "red phone" is not exactly a phone. It is simply a direct thread by which the President of Russia and the President of the United States can communicate immediately, without any delay.
It was created in case of a nuclear crisis and to avoid a catastrophe that, in the 1960s, was on the verge of disappearing.
What is the meaning of the part in bold?
Thanks.
@tanguatlay,
It refers to the pace of arms control agreements in the '60s and the belief that a nuclear crisis would thus be avoided.
@tanguatlay,
It means that the journalist accidentally used the word
disappearing instead of
appearing.
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