Arms race Quote by Masha Gessen

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

— Herman Kahn

“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned.…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“If your case, as a politically repressed person, is reviewed by the Special Council, you are almost guaranteed the standard sentence: ten years in…

— Anonymous

“World War II did more than usher in unparalleled prosperity for the United States. It transformed America's foreign relations. The war devastated the Axis…

— James T. Patterson

“The greatest evils since World War II have been Communism and, since the demise of Communism in the Soviet Union and most other Communist…

— Dennis Prager

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the material conditions…

— Masha Gessen

It seems that probably Putin's father maintained some connection to the secret police throughout his life. One sign of that is that they had…

— Masha Gessen

A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement…

— Leon Trotsky

Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so…

— Pankaj Mishra

The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race…

— Barack Obama

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout…

— Joseph Rotblat