Cold War Was A Lot of Hot Air.

The following is a quote from an ex-CIA agent:

"I quit the agency at the end of the Cold War because I was tired of politicians making me describe the Soviet Union as a 20-foot giant -- when it was really only a dwarf."

 

 No, but I do know the USSR never for a second seriously considered using nukes, unless USA attacked first. NEVER. And the Cuban missile crisis was fake, real rocket engines, wooden warheads. Grandfather was one of the main guys in charge of the project.

 Stalin even tried to keep the fragile WW2 alliance together by not saying Hitler is dead in order to unite the Allies agaisnt Nazis. And he ordered Zhukov(who was forcing American troops to retreat with threats and assebling hisa rmy to attack them) to stop, so as not to provoke atomic retaliation.

Did you know that before the advent of Aegis on the American ships American RADAR couldn't pick up the traces of the SS-N-19 shipwreck missile, which skimmed at twenty feet above the surface of the water.  Also, it's said that the Yahkont sea-skimmer was also able to get past American RADAR, although I doubt it could get past Aegis.  Additionally, the Russians were the only ones to test the SuCav (Super Cavitating) torpedo, which had a velocity of 200knots (with a distance of some ten kilometers). 

It's been said that the US Pacific and Atlantic fleets could have been destroyed in the first three days of war - however, I am skeptical of this.  In any case, the Soviet Union, as a military giant, was a grave thread, and had we gone to war (assuming nuclear warheads were not used) the United States would have had a tought time overthrowing the bear, and the bear may have possibly defeated the high flying eagle.

nukes are the great equalizer in all things, which is why I beleive the only reasonabel way to bring about world peace is to proliferate the world with nukes and make sure every country has a stockpile capable of hitting every other country.  There is a reason wars where so much more horrific before WW2, and that was that the fear of nukes did not keep people in line.

Hi everyone, I am a student in Dublin currently doing the international baccalaureate and i'am researching topics on the cold war for a essay, which counts for a fair part of my grade. I'am wondering if you guys could help me slightly with coming up with essay titles. You see i'am interested in the cuban missle crisis and i find most parts of the cold war interesting. so would you guys perhaps help me come up with some ideas for titles or you could just tell me to get lost.

Thanks, Erol 

 Did you find this by Googling Cold War?

 Nothing NM. My opinion is way too long to fully write here, but here's the short version: both sides bad Soviet Union is lesser of two evils.

 Well dont have much time now but heres a slightly longer version:
Both countries were empires that wanted to dominate the world with the biggest differrence between them being that one tried to create the biggest income disparity possible and cared little for it's people unless they were rich, the other cared for most (Im saying that because high ranking party members and generals obviously had their perks) by instituting high welfare, free ducation and free pretty much everything. The things that were not free were food and luxuries, Food was easliy bought (untill the late 1986 and up to around 1993 when people starved) and luzuries such as enterainment were harder to buy but still affordable ( a person could afford to go to movies or restaraunt once a week or so) and cars were given out by government (not in theory but without government you couldn't get car). With what capitalism has done to Russia in the recent years, how poor we are, how the common man can no longer afford to keep himself healthy and educated, and how for the majority any sort of entertainment is all but unafordable. This in turn has caused gang activity and urban decay, which is somethign AMerica has been living with for decades. Putin's programs are having some positive effect, but it's still a long way to go. Now compare it with the sucess that was socialism and you have my opinion.

successfull resistance.. with what, corruption?