George F. Kennan

TL;DR: The political personality of Soviet power as we know it today is the product of ideology and circumstances: ideology inherited by the present Soviet leaders from the movement in which they had their political origin, and circumstances of the power which they now have exercised for nearly three decades in Russia as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, four Americans who have been concerned over many years with the relation between nuclear weapons and the peace and freedom of the members of the Atlantic Alliance have discussed the implications of using nuclear weapons for defending the United States against aggression from the East.