For more than fifty years, the US could keep the Soviet Union from sending atomic weapons while their fingers drifted over the catches. The main helper was discouragement; the way that we would most without a doubt strike back with a similarly destroying power. This unreasonable intuition was tended to by Ronald Reagan when he said, “Now for quite a long time, we and the Soviets have lived under the risk of common guaranteed devastation; if either turned to the utilization of atomic weapons
