In the late 1980s, the United States and the USSR negotiated a maritime treaty adjusting the borders between Alaska and our Cold War rival. The treaty moved the border to the east, which gave the Soviets more land. It also included islands north of Siberia. The premise of this deal was to thaw relations and even though the treaty was not ratified, our two nations have been honoring the proposed boundary changes ever since. Upon the conclusion of the Cold War, the treaty was still not ratified but no effort has been made by four subsequent presidents to restore what is still the official border. Joe Miller was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2010. He tells us what kind of energy is beneath the islands in question, how Alaska has been given no voice in this debate and why getting the State Department to scrap the treaty sooner rather than later is very important.