Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

Former Nixon interpreter says with strategic vision ... are you concerned that a new cold war is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, with the US and its allies - such as Europe, Japan, South ...

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Nixon pointed to the dishwasher on display ... During those early years of the Cold War, the traditional nuclear family was perceived as crucial to the nation's security. It also served to ...

Nixon is fully cognizant that his No. 1 priority is Viet Nam. Key policies, both at home and abroad, depend upon a speedy settlement of the divisive war that has already claimed 30,644 American ...

Nixon could not let the gold window pass. The cold calculus of human lives dictated that a great man should let thousands die so that billions may live without fear of nuclear war. Nixon wanted to ...

BW: Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. In all of American history, only one president has been effectively thrown out of office, Richard Nixon. Simply put, his opponents believe that he trashed the ...

And concerning the war, how did Nixon, with all his foreign policy savvy, allow himself to get trapped in the same quagmire he had watched disastrously engulf his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson?

Details Nixon met Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ... However, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and the Cold War began to heat up once more.