135.Ronald Reagan, Remarks at Moscow State University, May 31, 1988, APP; Chris Miller,
136.National Intelligence Council, “The USSR and the Vulnerability of Empire,” November 27, 1981, CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), National Archives and Research Administration.
137.Watts and Krepinevich,
138.A. W. Marshall, “Long-Term Competition with the Soviets: A Framework for Strategic Analysis,” RAND Corporation, R-862-PR, April 1972.
139.Harold Brown,
140.National Security Planning Group Meeting, December 10, 1984, Box 91307, NSPGs, NSC Executive Secretariat File, RRL.
141.“The Russian Wheat Deal,” October 1975, in Kiron Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, eds.,
142.“The Madrid Agreement,” January 3, 1984, Box 4, Kampelman Papers, Minnesota Historical Society.
143.Richard Halloran, “Pentagon Draws Up First Strategy for Fighting a Long Nuclear War,”
144.Gordon Barrass, “U.S. Competitive Strategy during the Cold War,” in Thomas Mahnken, ed.,
145.NSDD-13, October 19, 1981, DNSA; George Wilson, “Preparing for Long Nuclear War Is Waste of Funds, Gen. Jones Says,”
146.Ronald Reagan, Address on Defense and National Security, March 23, 1983, APP.
147.NSC Meeting, November 30, 1983, Box 91303, NSC Meetings, NSC ESF, RRL.
148.Reuters news dispatch, March 18, 1981, Richard Allen Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.
149.Nikolai Ogarkov, speech to Warsaw Pact Chiefs of Staff, September 1982, in Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Byrne, eds.,
150.Ronald Reagan, Remarks to National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983, APP.
151.NSC Meeting, May 24, 1982, Box 91284, ESF, RRL; also NSC Meeting, 12/21/1981, Box 91283, ESF, RRL; Seth Jones,
152.Leslie Gelb, “Foreign Affairs; Who Won the Cold War?,”
153.Discussion on U.S.–Soviet Relations, October 11, 1983, Box 2, Jack Matlock Files, RRL; Ben Fischer, “The 1983 War Scare in U.S.–Soviet Relations,” Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1996, EBB 426, DNSA.
154.Ronald Reagan, Speech at Westminster, June 8, 1982, APP.
155.Jeffrey Engel,
156.Anatoly Chernyaev,
157.Mikhail Gorbachev,
158.Special National Intelligence Estimate, “Gorbachev’s Policy toward the United States,” September 1986, CIA FOIA; Dobrynin,
159.Carolyn Ekedahl and Melvin Goodman,
160.Ronald Reagan, “Gorbachev,” October 13, 1985, Box 215, Donald Regan Papers, LC; Ronald Reagan, Remarks in West Berlin, June 12, 1987, APP.
161.Notes of Shultz–Gorbachev Meeting, April 14, 1987, Box 5, Don Oberdorfer Papers, SMML.