Originally Posted by Walking Shadow

No.

The rhetoric coming from the politicians was very much one-sided and was very mild, compared to some of the stuff that Khruschev said in the 1960's.

Yes, Reagan did a bit of saber rattling but it was little more then going to Berlin and giving his, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!!! speech. You obviously don't recall this, but the Soviet leaders before Gorbachev, Brezhnes, Chernencko & Andropov were all quite ill while Reagan was President and thus had little to say to him. In fact Reagan made a horrible joke when asked by a reporter why he had never met with a Soviet leader, "They keep dying on me."

Yeah, that's classy.

The Cold war was at it's zenith and it's hottest as I said in my previous post, during the Cuban Missle Crisis.

The 1980's can't begin to comapre.