The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
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The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked.
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.
Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.
A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
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