Reagan, Gorbachev and Bear River Smith Kindle Edition

It is 1985: The President of the United States of America, Mr. Ronald Reagan and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev have both separately proposed in speeches to various groups over the past year the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Glasnost-openness; perestroika-restructuring: their proposals of new thinking for the world or how to get there from here. Mutual Assured Destruction, MAD is mad. The threat to kill millions of people in retaliation for somebody thinking that their world would be better off if they killed millions of people is not a sustainable premise. Two people are going to try to secure their children's future by looking into the past. Read more