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Summary of a World Federation Plan: An Outline of a Practical and Detailed Plan for World Settlement

Discussing the History of International Orders: A Workshop Report

By Francine McKenzie on September 15, 2023

Internal NKVD report written by Pyotr Fedotov.

“We Intend to Arrest Him When He Attempts to Cross the Border”: Pyotr Fedotov and the Methods of Soviet Counterintelligence in 1940

By Filip Kovacevic on September 12, 2023

Leonid Brezhnev photographed after speaking in April 1967 at the 7th Party Congress of the SED.

Nuclear History

"If one tightens the screw to the limit … one might strip the thread”

By Jonathan Hunt on September 7, 2023

China-Albania friendship delegation on a visit to an Albanian factory, 1967

Centering Eastern Europe’s Cold War through the Wilson Center Digital Archive

By Elidor Mëhilli on August 31, 2023

One of the first images of missile bases under construction shown to President Kennedy on the morning of October 16.

“Blundering on the Brink”: Cuban Missile Crisis Documents from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense

By Emma Larson on July 31, 2023

Beyond “Dog Wagging the Tail” and “Tail Wagging the Dog”: Vietnamese Foreign Relations and the Cold War Endgame in Asia as Reflected in Trần Quang Cơ’s Memoir

By Qingfei Yin on July 28, 2023

The Tran Quang Co Memoir: A Translator’s Introduction

By Merle Pribbenow on July 28, 2023

Fischer and Karpov

Cold War on the Chessboard

By Vassily Klimentov on July 25, 2023

A cable sent from CIA headquarters to an agency officer in Mexico City concerning Liang Sicheng and whether or not he could be persuaded to defect to the United States.

Liang Sicheng as CIA Defection Target in Mexico City: New Evidence from the JFK Files

By Adam Cathcart on June 28, 2023

resident Kennedy American University Commencement Address June 10, 1963

President Kennedy’s Momentous Two Days of Peace and Freedom in June, 1963

By Andrew Cohen on June 20, 2023

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