Peeking Through Years, and the Wall, at Oswald (Published 2012)
Eduard Sagyndykov owns the Minsk apartment where Lee Harvey Oswald once lived.Credit...Andrei Liankevich for The New York Times MINSK, Belarus — At the end of the cold war, the leadership of the K.G.B., demoralized and seeking favor with the pro-Western reformers then coming to power in post-Soviet states, briefly opened its files on the accused assassin of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald. The
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Aleksandr Prokopenko/AFP/Getty Images Yulia Tymoshenko, one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution and current prime minister of Ukraine, at a rally in Independence Square on the revolution’s first anniversary, Kiev, November 22, 2005 In the autumn of 1989, the term “velvet revolution” was coined to describe a peaceful, theatrical, negotiated regime change in a small Central European state that n
Shocking New Research: Stasi Had Thousands of Spies in West Germany
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'Intellectually Limited': Book Reveals True State of US-German Cold-War Bond
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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
Why London is getting a statue of Ronald Reagan
A statue of US President Ronald Reagan has been unveiled near the US embassy in London, to mark the centenary of his birth. How did this come about? Once upon a time, 4 July in London was the occasion for a grand party at the American ambassador's vast residence in Regent's Park. The diplomatic corps, leading MPs, titans of industry, and we sparrows of the press would feast on hamburgers, hot dogs
特集ワイド：「国策民営」 日本の原子力、戦後史のツケ - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
危機と対応の混乱が続く福島第１原子力発電所。この国には、この「フクシマ」を含め５４基の原子炉がある。そもそも被爆国であり地震国でもある日本に、なぜ、これほど多くの原発が造られたのか？ 「原子力の戦後史」をひもといた。【浦松丈二】 ◇米国の「冷戦」戦略受け導入 政治主導で推進、議論尽くさず ＜ポダムとの関係は十分成熟したものになったので、具体的な協力申し出ができるのではないかと思う＞ 早稲田大学の有馬哲夫教授（メディア研究）が０５年、米ワシントン郊外の国立第２公文書館から発掘したＣＩＡ（米中央情報局）機密文書の一節である。終戦直後から６０年代までに蓄積された４７４ページにわたるその文書には、日本に原子力事業が導入される過程が詳細に描かれていた。 「ポダム」とは当時、読売新聞社社主で日本テレビ社長だった正力松太郎氏（１８８５～１９６９年）の暗号名。原子力委員会の初代委員長を務め、のちに「日本の
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