to the ultimate benefit of the planet's population. As recently as half a century ago, for example, there was a global clash of economic ideologies. Nikita Khrushchev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, could claim that the state was better at delivering basic goods to citizens than free markets were, but today

of New York's evolution into a megalopolis inspires mainly a sense of loss, and ecology-minded discussions of the city tend to have a forlorn aft. Nikita Khrushchev, who visited New York in the fall of 1960, found the scarcity of foliage in the city depressing by comparison with Moscow, saying, "It is enough to

the ultimate benefit of the planet's population. As recently as half a century ago, for example, there was a global clash of economic ideologies. Nikita Khrushchev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, could claim that the state was better at delivering basic goods to citizens than free markets were, but tod

nd we are soon confronted with a nuclear-armed Iran. Kennedy faced an unpredictable, risk-taking and at times aggressive opponent in Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Yet he frustrated Khrushchev's ambitions and helped the U.S. avoid war through a combination of American nuclear superiority, firmness in defendin

nk, you are lost," he explained: it was "the ability to get to the verge without getting into the war" that was "the necessary art." Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who admired Dulles for his nervy policy, agreed, as the historian Marc Trachtenberg has shown. He wielded the same tactic in a series of crises fr

the ultimate benefit of the planet's population. As recently as half a century ago, for example, there was a global clash of economic ideologies. Nikita Khrushchev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, could claim that the state was better at delivering basic goods to citizens than free markets were, but tod

ng to stop the Soviets from operationalizing the missiles already there. A tense second week followed during which Kennedy and the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, stood "eyeball to eyeball," neither side backing down. Saturday, Oct. 27, was the day of decision. At the last minute, the crisis was resolved wit

what the Russians and Iranians fear would have been an easy win in Syria cannot be explained by them in any other way. This is dangerous. Just as Nikita Khrushchev concluded that President Kennedy was weak and incompetent after the Bay of Pigs failure and the botched Vienna summit, and then proceeded to test t

who are dumber. —Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher Politicians are the sa=e all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. —Nikita Khrushchev, Ru=sian Soviet politician When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM; I'm=beginning to believe it. —Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for t

essful intelligence operation. The CIA considered one of its greatest coups of the Cold War its release of the espionage-acquired @ secret speech of Nikita Khrushchev to the Communist Party of the @ Soviet Union in 1956 exposing the transgressions of the previous regime of Joseph Stalin. Making public these deeds w