The Brink Quotes

“the Soviets used Marxist rhetoric the way that Americans used religious rhetoric, and that Soviet leaders wanted stability above all else.”
― Marc Ambinder, The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983

“A board game called Nuclear Escalation, about when “missiles start flying” after diplomacy fails, was among the highest-grossing of the year.4 Not to be outdone, Milton Bradley released a sequel to its popular Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation.5 Also that year, the game Gulf Strike, about a war in the Middle East that went global, was seen as so realistic that the Pentagon would ask its author, Mark Herman, to become a consultant.”
― Marc Ambinder, The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983