Steve, Steven or Stephen Cohen may refer to: (wikipedia)
We were tied up in Korea; we were worried about the Russians. And, conceivably, they said 'nuclear' because they didn't want him to do anything for India; that this was a way of raising the stakes so high as to make it not an option.
This is a radically different way of interacting with money transfers than what people are used to.
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
The nuclear agreement attempts to cut through this past history, and offer to India a tailor-made 'regime' outside of the NPT.
There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.
Pakistan already has a similar law but its record speaks for itself.
Both sides have tried all alternatives - ranging from ignoring the other side (India), to the use of force (Pakistan), to the threat of the use of force (India again). Now both sides have run out of options other than to sit across the table and talk.
Banks are dealing with a lot of back-room processing when they say it takes several days or so.
As long as that's the case, they can talk about working together against us, or sharing their views about us, but in fact they come to (work with) us in the last analysis.