What name is associated with brinksmanship?

The term "brinksmanship" is most closely associated with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, during the Cold War. They employed a strategy of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster to achieve favorable outcomes in international relations, particularly in the context of nuclear diplomacy with the Soviet Union. This approach was characterized by the willingness to escalate conflicts to the edge of war to compel an opponent to back down.