MrDarcy23: The world is safer in several ways.  First and most important, if you lived through the cold war, which ended in around 1990, you will remember that the nuclear arms race was between the good guys (the U.S.) and the bad guys (the Soviets).  If you supported the good guys, you were always worried about the bad guys winning the race.  Well, the good guys won because of Regan and we haven't had to worry to the same extend about nuclear war with the Soviets because of the win.  Second, we have a stronger NATO alliance because of the Soviet Union's collapse.  All of the former Soviet-occupied countries of eastern Europe (East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, The Czech Republic, etc.) are now on the side of the good guys, which means less chance of the bad guys (now Russia) starting anything nasty.  Yes, the world is safer because of Reagan.