By Alina Entelis   Chapter 1. A Party in the Forest   On December 8, 1991, at 1:08 p.m. Washington time, U.S. President George H.W. Bush received a telephone call. On the line was Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Soviet Republic. Yeltsin was in the company of the president of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, … Continue reading The Disarmament Race