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Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

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

I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.