marathag
Banned
Eisenhower did offer Open Skies, and did warn of both the Military-Industrial Complex as well as the Scientific-Technological elite.Was anyone really going to trust a Soviet leader in 1956 if he said "hey, let's call the whole thing off!"?
He was the best chance for lasting peace, much in the way only Nixon could have gone to China, Ike was the one for sweeping changes in the US/USSR relationship.
Next in line was RR and Gorby, but that's as the USSR was swirling down the drain, 30 years too late- as that's when the USSR really needed Peace, not a ramping up Cold War with boastful threats ti make ICBMs like sausages