He was famous for being a peanut farmer.     So, you are saying that if we had given up our nuclear weapons as the lefties of the time wanted (today's are still trying for that goal), that the USSR would not have made a move on the world?  Remember that was a stated goal of the communists.   BTW it still is a stated goal.  They have just gone about it in a different way and so far have been winning, thanks to people like Obama and Pelosi.  I can still hear the outcry lefties made when President Reagan refused to back down to Gorbachev.  That one thing is what saved us from speaking Russian.