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When Reagan visited the Soviet Union in May, 1988, Gorbachev arranged for him to lecture at Moscow State University on the virtues of market capitalism. From beneath a huge bust of Lenin, the president evoked computer chips, rock stars, movies, and the “irresistible power of unarmed truth.” The students gave him a standing ovation.93 Soon Gorbachev was repeating what he had learned
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
The task fell to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who insisted that it ought to be possible, not only to devise a spectrum of possibilities for how a nuclear war might be fought, but also to get the Russians to agree on what the rules for such combat might be
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Today Homs is reminiscent of Dresden after World War II, more archaeological ruin than place of habitation
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