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Iran, via third parties that included Israel. In a further refinement of capitalist spy-craft, the proceeds of these sales were used to finance the right-wing Contra rebels, who were attempting to topple the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua
Khrushchev wielded a far greater capacity for destruction than they ever did, but he behaved with far less responsibility. He was like a petulant child playing with a loaded gun.
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
It was one of Reagan’s finest performances, but Gorbachev for the moment remained unmoved: the United States would have to give up the right to deploy SDI.
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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