Between us and ... the bad old lands

Remember the CONELRAD ALERTS? The Duck and Covers? The real currency of the Cold War?
All that stands between us and that old bad land is the current Soviet Premier. Nick Sarkozy, formerly of Paris, now Kennebunkport, is trying to keep up. He's trying to come to grips with the fact that the current Soviet Premier isn't rolling over on the Iran War fiction, or on scraping the ABM Treaty.