Cold war Quote by Garrett M. Graff

Take the [1980] Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. Carter kept trying to imply that somehow Ronald Reagan was going to push the button, or was…

— Roger Ailes

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Eisenhower was certain any war with the Soviet Union would become a nuclear war, and any nuclear war would escalate into a full, all-out…

— Garrett M. Graff

...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far…

— Robert McNamara

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

“Although Truman and his advisers still hoped to ameliorate gathering tensions, they made only half-hearted efforts to accommodate the Soviets, or even to negotiate…

— James T. Patterson

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of…

— Joseph Rotblat

“Kennedy, who had campaigned strongly on the “Missile Gap” issue, soon discovered as president that the Soviet Union didn’t have the 500 missiles feared—it…

— Garrett M. Graff

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is…

— Thomas Schelling

“waned. Efforts to protect civilian life fell by the wayside and a fourth and final grim phase of nuclear reality settled over the United…

— Garrett M. Graff

During the Clinton administration, engagement, backed by the threat of force, convinced Pyongyang to freeze its dangerous nuclear program and put a moratorium on…

— Antony Blinken