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 ...

Cuba and the Cold War, 1960-1980, The Collapse of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, Nixon, Detente, and Sino-American Normalization, The Arms Race, 1963-1975, Espionage, Covert Action, and the Cold War, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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?

President Richard Nixon in 1971 declared a US "war on drugs" that, over the decades, fueled mass incarceration and the crisis at the US's southern border without preventing Americans from ...

Four years later, the campaign focus moves from Cold War to active war ... The mood of the electorate changes by '68, when Nixon's vague claim of "secret plans" to end the war and his law-and ...