Other areas of collaboration are rapidly coming up. All of a sudden, it became politically correct in this country to be in love with Russia. It was full of Russian bachelor scientists, and was awaited for by a huge crowd of American single and divorced ladies, eager to pick charming Russian husband. Some of them who belong to the high society, came incognito. The police dealt with that situation in a very discreet way by delicately pulling the ladies away from each other.
Nobody knows who won.
The Presidents of top five US universities are ready to declare their voluntary resignation in favor of any member of Russian Academy of Sciences who is willing to come and pick the Presidency up. Recently, the top University in one of the West-Southern states while looking for a new Director of its very distinguished research Center, talked with five Russians. Honest people, Americans are willing to pay for a presumed brain drain to Russian Government. In response to the massive nuclear threat posed by Iraq and Libya, it was recently announced by the US DOE that there will be a major nuclear weapons design contest between US and former Soviet scientists. The goal will be to further improve yield and compactness of devices.