Question

Which person fits the description. My administration created the idea of brinkmanship—going to the brink of nuclear war to achieve our aims.
Ronald Reagan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Margaret Thatcher
Nikita Khrushchev
Harry S. Truman
Josef Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) Dwight Eisenhower.

"My administration created the idea of brinkmanship—going to the brink of nuclear war to achieve our aims." The person who fits the description is Dwight Eisenhower.

In politics, when someone refers to the term of "brinkmanship" it means that something had to go to the very extreme of the situation in order to be resolved. It is a maximum risk moment. It is to get an advantage of any situation by pushing risky moments or events. The term was coined bu John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, at the beginning of the President Dwight Eisenhower administration.

Answer 2

Mikhail gorbachev would be the answer.