Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.