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Cold War Quotes

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

– Gerhard Schroder

I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I’ve got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn’t work for you in the Cold War.

– Haskell Wexler

People nowadays don’t know about the Cold War and the U.S.’s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

– Hideo Kojima

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

– Giulio Andreotti

The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we’ve got guns all over the place. It’s basically a cold war for individuals: you’ve got a nuclear bomb, and I’ve got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.

– Jeff Bridges

I remembered being young in the late ’70s and early ’80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.

– John Niven

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

– John le Carre

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

– Joseph Rotblat

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

– John le Carre

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

– Jane Smiley

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

– John le Carre

If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

– James Lovelock

Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East.

– Jamais Cascio

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

– Joseph Rotblat

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

– Justin Cronin

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t.

– Jeremy Corbyn

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

– Justin Cronin

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.

– Joseph Rotblat

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

– Alexander Haig

Le Carre’s voice – patrician, cold, brilliant and amused – was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.

– Alan Furst

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

– Adam Schiff

Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

– Ben Shapiro

During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.

– Bobbie Ann Mason

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

– Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

– Barbara Olson

Stalin’s policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.

– Bob Ainsworth

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he’s a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

– Alex Berenson

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

– Bernard Baruch

We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.

– Bob Ainsworth

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

– Bill Gates

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