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Sources and Methods presents fresh archival evidence and new insights into contemporary international history.

Nuclear History

Polish Perspectives on the Rapacki Plan for the Denuclearization of Central Europe

Sep 23, 2019
 // Ryan Alexander Musto

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Happy 2nd Lt. William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Red Army, near Torgau, Germany in April 1945. Source: US National Archives and Records Administration, #531276.
Cold War

The Soviet Side of the Cultural Cold War

Sep 23, 2019
 // Rósa Magnúsdóttir
Image: A helicopter sprays a decontamination liquid nearby the Chernobyl reactor in 1986. Source: IAEA Imagebank #02790036, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nuclear History

28 Newly Translated Documents on Chernobyl, 1973-1991

Sep 16, 2019
 // Rose Hinman
Image: Professor M.S. Narasimhan demonstrating the first Indian digital computer to Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi Bhabha at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nuclear History

India's Department of Atomic Energy: A Page in History

Sep 16, 2019
 // Martand Jha
Swedish leader Olof Palme demonstrates against the war with the North Vietnamese ambassador to Moscow during a a torchlight march, February 1968. Source: Public Domain. Arbetarrörelsens arkiv, via WikiCommons.
Cold War

Acting Independently: The Vietnam War and the Roots of Sweden’s Foreign Policy

Aug 22, 2019
 // Naman Habtom-Desta
FUGITIVE: Josef Mengele, from left, Nazi Party membership application, Berlin, 1937; German passport photo, Buenos Aires, 1956; Argentine identity card, Asuncion, Paraguay, 1959 Images courtesy San Diego State University Network TV News Research Archive.
Cold War

Auschwitz’s Cold War Shadow: Eva Kor’s Life and Josef Mengele’s Death

Aug 22, 2019
 // John Martin
Cold War

Operation “Denver”: KGB and Stasi Disinformation regarding AIDS

Jul 22, 2019
 // Douglas Selvage, Christopher Nehring
Cold War

New Documentary Release on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

Jul 12, 2019
 // A. Ross Johnson
Hồ Chí Minh at the French Communist Party Congress, Marseille, 1921. Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Cold War

The Myth of the Wilsonian Moment

Jun 17, 2019
 // Brett Reilly
A signing ceremony for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act, March 1978. Source: National Archives and Records Administration, Identifier 178317.
Nuclear History

How the Carter Administration Pursued Non-Proliferation Policies: A View from Apartheid South Africa

Jun 17, 2019
 // Robin Möser
The first photograph of Unit Four after the accident, shot from a helicopter by Chernobyl plant photographer Anatoly Rasskazov, at approximately 3.00pm on April 26 1986 (Anatoly Rasskazov/Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum)
Nuclear History

“An Explosion Occurred in Power Unit No. 4”: The Story of Chernobyl in Documents

Apr 26, 2019
 // Adam Higginbotham
Nuclear History

Sources on China's Nuclear History

Apr 15, 2019
 // Lei Liu
The 1961 Belgrade Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement. Image: Creative Commons/Wikimedia.
Cold War

The Non-Aligned Movement and the North-South Conflict

Apr 15, 2019
 // Jürgen Dinkel