Cold war Quote by Daniel Ellsberg

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our…

— Rudy Giuliani

Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have…

— Sam Nunn

There's an unspoken rule post-Cold War American Presidents have used when describing the awesome power of our nuclear arsenal; the more devastating the ability…

— Rick Wilson

Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.

— Valerie Plame

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to…

— C. Robert Kehler

“updates to the nation’s nuclear weapons policies represented just the third major shift in the Cold War; following Eisenhower’s “massive retaliation” and the “assured…

— Garrett M. Graff

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the…

— Alva Myrdal

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information…

— Boris Yeltsin

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate…

— David Kay

Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in…

— John F. Kennedy

“They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a…

— Frank Herbert