Anne Harrington: Because both sides were equally suspicious of the other and what the other had, or had not, done, it was very difficult to begin a conversation on this topic. It was not until then-president Yeltsin made a declaratory statement that the Soviet Union had never stopped its weapons program that the truth came out, and once it was out, it was very difficult to get any Russian official to repeat that statement. It was, you know, to some Russian officials it was as if president Yeltsin had never said those words.