How Joe Biden’s cold war experience will shape his approach to Russia

President-elect's formative years of going toe-to-toe with the USSR on arms control hint at how he may deal with Putin

It was 1988, near the end of the cold war, when then-senator Joe Biden made yet another visit to the Soviet Union for talks on arms control. By that time, he felt comfortable enough in Moscow to bring a guest into the room: his teenage son.

Would you mind my son, Hunter Biden, sitting in and listening? The gentleman is interested in international affairs and diplomacy," he said, according to Victor Prokofiev, the Soviet foreign ministry interpreter at the meeting.