The Real Cuban Missile Crisis
On october 16, 1962, John F. Kennedy and his advisers were stunned to learn that the Soviet Union was, without provocation, installing nuclear-armed medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. With these offensive weapons, which represented a new and existential threat to America, Moscow significantly raised the ante in the nuclear rivalry between the superpowers—a gambit that force
Exclusive: The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA - Salon.com
Exclusive: The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA Letters discovered by Salon show even deeper Cold War ties between the Paris Review and a U.S. propaganda front By Joel Whitney more All Share Services In 1958, the Paris Review’s George Plimpton wrote his Paris editor with a grand proposal. The Russian author Boris Pasternak had just been awarded the Nobel Prize. But under pressure from the S
Is This George Kennan? | Frank Costigliola
It seemed like the perfect match. In the late 1970s John Lewis Gaddis was smart, sympathetic, and eager to write the biography. George F. Kennan admired Gaddis as probably “the best of the younger historians of American policy in the immediate postwar period.”1 Kennan had earned enormous respect over his long career as a diplomat, historian, public intellectual, and critic of US policy in the cold
The Age of Kennan (Published 2011)
While writing this essay, I asked several young men and women what George F. Kennan meant to them. As it turned out, nearly all were essentially oblivious of the man or his role in shaping American foreign policy. Yet Kennan had fashioned the concept of containment in the name of which the cold war was conducted and won and almost concurrently had also expressed some of the most trenchant criticis
Nuclear Monopolist (Published 2010)
Early in the morning of Aug. 29, 1949, a mushroom cloud soared up over the Kazakh deserts. The Soviets had detonated their first atomic bomb, a thrilling feat of engineering and physics. The man who had supervised the effort, the pitiless chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria, raced to telephone Stalin. But when the leader came on the line he declared that he already knew and hung up. It was
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Opinion | The Price of a 50-Year Myth (Published 2012)
Amazon.co.jp: グローバル冷戦史―第三世界への介入と現代世界の形成―: O・A・ウェスタッド (著), 佐々木雄太 (翻訳), 小川浩之 (翻訳), 益田実 (翻訳), 三須拓也 (翻訳): 本
Mandarins, Guns and Money: Academics and the Cold War
George F Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis - review
George F. Kennan’s Cold War
Only Don't Call Me Comrade | The National Interest
Havana's Man in Havana
Warriors, Hot and Cold
The Heart of a Realist (Published 2010)
How the US took on Dr Strangelove and tried to make Americans love the bomb
The Year That Was (Published 2010)
Mandarins, Guns and Money: Academics and the Cold War
Inside Higher Ed's News
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Sunday Book Review: Hawk and Dove
Why was Berlin the key to the Cold War?