American military Quote by Leo Szilard

“As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage…

— Robert Conquest

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do…

— Margarita Simonyan

To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when…

— Herbert York

“In those days, this was years for the sputnik thing, it was customary to downgrade the Russians' science. People who know something about those…

— E.L. Doctorow

The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second…

— Harry S. Truman

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We…

— Fareed Zakaria

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Allan realised it was only a matter of time before he and Herbert were stopped along the road and checked out properly. Not even…

— Jonas Jonasson

The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in…

— Anne Applebaum

“The umbrella assertion made by Team B—and the most inflammatory—was that the previous National Intelligence Estimates “substantially misperceived the motivations behind Soviet strategic programs,…

— Rachel Maddow

“That [Chester Bowles's] ideas seemed to be a little unfashionable did not bother him. He simply did not take the Russian threat that seriously;…

— David Halberstam