#cold war

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid. ↗

— Hans Blix

#any #apartheid #because #cold #cold war

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

— John le Carre

#cold #cold war #dead #declared #long

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#challenge #cold #cold war #confronted #could

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. ↗

— Hans Kung

#cold #cold war #collapse #colonialism #communism

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#certainly #cold #cold war #communication #could

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#bred #budgets #cold #cold war #down

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#cold #cold war #commit #crimes #domination

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#cold #cold war #cultural #economic #emerging

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

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#anywhere #cold #cold war #could #euphoria