The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
18 THE END OF THE COLD WAR attracted comment as, unlike most other men in their seventies, he had gone neither bald nor grey, wh ...
RONALD REAGAN 19 everything about the USSR. He never missed a chance to stress his detestation of Leninist doctrines and practic ...
20 THE END OF THE COLD WAR definite overture in unambiguous language. He had no definite design, only a desire to make the attem ...
RONALD REAGAN 21 excluded from his proposal, and it was never likely that the Politburo would agree to a military settlement tha ...
22 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Reagan would face down the USSR. He wanted ‘to contain and over time reverse Soviet expansionism’. At ...
RONALD REAGAN 23 the global power and pretension of the USSR; but he also sought peace in the world. He ignored the prospective ...
2. PLANS FOR ARMAGEDDON Soviet military doctrine held that the USSR could win a nuclear war with America. There was no secret ab ...
PLANS FOR ARMAGEDDON 25 of Armaments, had grown unaccustomed to people who disagreed with his opinions. He understandably prefer ...
26 THE END OF THE COLD WAR that had suffered devastation. Refugees would be streaming every- where. The weather could be snowy i ...
PLANS FOR ARMAGEDDON 27 and Washington. It was as if the politicians found that once the weapons were being produced, it was har ...
28 THE END OF THE COLD WAR for leaders at the central and regional levels. Underground facilities existed at Sharapovo and Chekh ...
PLANS FOR ARMAGEDDON 29 he described military preparations in the Warsaw Pact as ‘science fiction’.^22 Every sensible commander ...
30 THE END OF THE COLD WAR expected to fight in the event of military conflict between the USSR and the US. His temperament was ...
PLANS FOR ARMAGEDDON 31 Fred Iklé, the US Under Secretary of Defense, was not alone in the American administration in worrying a ...
32 THE END OF THE COLD WAR ‘Danger – Nuclear War’, the call was for a ban on all nuclear weapons. This was brought to the attent ...
PLANS FOR ARMAGEDDON 33 wounded were utterly inadequate.^40 The President was a sympathetic reader: the Vatican’s emphasis entir ...
3. THE REAGANAUTS Everyone Reagan brought into his administration wanted to avoid undue concessions to the USSR. They scorned th ...
THE REAGANAUTS 35 Harvard’s professor of Russian history Richard Pipes, challenged the CIA’s assumption that Soviet economic dec ...
36 THE END OF THE COLD WAR forces.^6 Unlike several other leading officials, he was cautious about the way he approached the USS ...
THE REAGANAUTS 37 the reality of a thoughtful intellectual who had taught economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School ...
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