Putin and Trump both have called for stronger nuclear weapons in their countries since then. Tanks and weapons in Europe – “placed closer to each other, as if to shoot point-blank.”“It all look as if the world is preparing for war,” Gorbachev wrote. His tone had darkened since his song in December – if not since the Soviet Union dissolved beneath his feet a quarter century ago. But Gorbachev’s advice for the world was much the same: Do like he and former president Ronald Reagan – whose cooperation and mutual disarmament may well have averted World War 3. “There were mountains of nuclear weapons.

Source: National Post January 29, 2017 17:33 UTC