Ronald Reagan actually said...

"The essence of U.S. nuclear strategy is that no aggressor should believe that the use of nuclear weapons in Europe could reasonably be limited to Europe."

"Thus, we regard any military threat to Europe as a threat to the United States itself."

"In a nuclear war, all mankind would lose."

"Our strategy remains, as it has been, one of flexible response: maintaining an assured military capability to deter the use of force—conventional or nuclear—by the Warsaw pact at the lowest possible l..."