Suzanne Massie their jointly written book, "Journey." "Journey" followed her husband's 1967 book, "Nicholas and Alexandra," a biography of the last Emperor and Empress of Russia whose son also was born with hemophilia. Massie subsequently married Seymour Papert. Reagan first became interested in Massie when he read her book "Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia." She eventually visited the White House where she became an informal messenger between the President and Mikhail Gorbachev and his administration. She also asked Reagan to learn the now famous Russian phrase ""Doveryai, no proveryai,"" which translates as "Trust, but verify." Her importance in
Effects of the Cold War unprepared and relatively sudden end. National security and defense for nuclear-weapons states must be frequently reevaluated. The international arms-control treaty and verification regime inherited from the Cold War is only slowly being updated to reflect the realities of a broken international security environment. Internal national-security military postures still dominate behavior among sovereign nations. The former superpowers have not formally consummated their stand-down from Cold War military equipoise. Strategic and tactical nuclear and conventional forces remain at levels comparatively high for a peacetime environment. Localized conflicts and tensions have replaced the former bilateral nuclear confrontation. As a lingering result, large inventories