Nikita Khrushchev Quotes
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
Khrushchev, Nikita. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Translated by Strobe Talbott, Little, Brown and Company, 1974, p. 52.
He and saome others were concerned that if most American citizens knew most of the details about terrorists and U. S. potential vulnerability to terrorism, many would be totally inhibited and American Society would become very insular and restrictive to the detriment of the nation and the economy. Critics argue that American's imagination stimulated by entertainment, journalism and literature was extreely robust and Americans nnetheless could handle the risks. And the secrecy even exacerbates the problem becasue there was no way to refute or curtain those who exaggerated the problem and the risks.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of Stalin's crimes and began De-Stalinization. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a near-nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. His proclivity toward recklessness led the Kremlin leadership to strip him from power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
