In an article written several years ago celebrating the 200th anniversary of US-Russian relations, then Ambassador to Russia William J. Burns wrote a short article disussing the cooperation. It did not receive a lot of attention.

Some youthful members of the "alt-right" might read it with disbelief and call it "fake news." It's not. It's what happens when two nations decide to work toward defeating a common enemy, in this case

polio.

Questions surrounding development of the polio vaccines continue to be wrought with controversy and ill will, and you can read and view news clips about all this on You Tube and other open sources. Still, at a time when new U.S. Ambassador to Russia Huntsman suggests that bi-lateral relations have reached a new low, now seems to an appropriate time to revisit the positive "Cold War" cooperation between Washington and the Kremlin that helped conquer the polio epidemic.