Putin threatens a new Cold War

His speech to the Russian people, suspending his country from New Start arms treaty, brings back echoes of a very dark past and a re-start of the Cold War.

Four years ago, I translated from the French a remarkable book by Guillaume Serina An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev and a World Without the Bomb. It dealt with the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. It was at that moment the world was allowed, for a moment, to dream of the possibility of a planet without any…