The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991

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522 THE END OF THE COLD WAR



  1. M. K. Deaver, A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan,
    p. 14.

  2. R. V. Allen to R. Reagan, talking points suggestion for telephone conversa-
    tion with Paul Nitze, 25 November 1981: Richard V. Allen Papers (HIA), box
    45, folder: Memoranda for the President, 1981 August – November.

  3. C. Weinberger (interview), HIGFC (HIA), box 3, folder 4, pp. 35–6.

  4. The Reagan Diaries, p. 100 (14 September 1982).

  5. E. Meese III, With Reagan: The Inside Story, pp. 192–3.

  6. Recollection by P. Robinson (about comment by William Buckley Jr) in his
    interview with M. Friedman, 21 March 2002, p. 8: Peter Robinson Papers
    (HIA), box 29.

  7. The Reagan Diaries, p. 142 (6 April 1983).

  8. See G. Arrighi, ‘The World Economy and the Cold War, 1970–1990’, in M.
    Leffler and O. A. Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, vol.
    3, pp. 31–40; F. Romero, Storia della guerra fredda. L’ultimo conflitto per
    l’Europa, pp. 252–66.

  9. New York Times, 31 March 1981.

  10. V. A. Aleksandrov, HIGFC (HIA), box 1, folder 2, p. 15.

  11. The Reagan Diaries, pp. 14–15 (23 April 1981).

  12. Ibid., p. 15: 24 April 1981; R. Harris (Reuters), 24 April 1981.

  13. A. G. Savel’yev and N. N. Detinov, The Big Five: Arms Control Decision-
    Making in the Soviet Union, p. 62.

  14. If Politburo deputy member Mikhail Gorbachëv already had such thoughts,
    he kept them to himself.

  15. The Reagan Diaries Unabridged, vol. 1, pp. 92–3 (12–15 December 1981).

  16. National Security Decision Directive no. 75, 17 January 1983, p. 1: Ronald
    Reagan Presidential Papers (hereafter RRPP).

  17. Ibid., pp. 2–3.

  18. Ibid., p. 4.

  19. Ibid., p. 5.

  20. Ibid., pp. 7–9.

  21. Ibid., p. 3.

  22. Personal interview with Charles Hill, 22 July 2011.


2: Plans for Armageddon


  1. N. V. Ogarkov, ‘Voennaya strategiya’, Sovetskaya voennaya entsiklopediya, vol.
    7, p. 564.

  2. Soviet Intentions 1965–1985, vol. 2: Soviet Post-Cold War Testimonial Evi-
    dence (eds J.  G. Hines, E.  M. Mishulovich and J.  F. Shull): interview of Lt.
    Gen. G. V. Batenin, 6 August 1993, pp. 8–9; ibid.: interview of Col. Gen. A. A.
    Danilevich, 13 December 1992, p. 57.

  3. Ibid.: interview of Lt. Gen. G. V. Batenin, 6 August 1993, pp. 8–9; ibid.: inter-

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