Robert EB,

I have nothing against you personally.
You sound like a solid family man with high ideals and a belief in the good of all people (except those dirty Muslims of course). You respect your God who ensures all life......but!!

>"Being a teenage in the 1980’s I remember wondering not if, but when the USSR would launch nuclear weapons against us."

Well, I was a teenager in the 60's and lived throught the Cuban Missile crisis.
Kennedy and Kruschev. I watched the cold war develop, right up to the fall of the Berlin wall.
REAGAN had nothing to do with it!

> It was a very real fear that Reagan helped take away.

No, Reagan just brought on the players and their monies on to the world stage.

<"it cost America huge amounts of money to build up our military, but to get rid of the threat of global nuclear war it was worth it."

THIS is a statemenbt that gives YOU a sense of security, but one that has the DIRECT OPPOSITE in meaning in today's day and age. Under Reagan, our defense industries more than doubled, as we became a major supplier of weapons world wide. If anything, Reagan and all following administrations have contributed greatly to the WMD around the world, and are now with their bullying and brow-beating, bringing us CLOSER TO a nuclear war, than I have ever seen or felt in all these years.