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

Nuclear History

Antarctic Arms Control at 60: A Precedent or a Pole Apart?

Dec 02, 2019
 // Ryan Alexander Musto

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A Stasi report on the failed mission to rescue American hostages during the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1980
Cold War

New Sources on Iran’s Tudeh Party, 1978-1988

Dec 16, 2019
 // Avital Smotrich-Barr
The National Intelligence Daily was the CIA’s principal form of intelligence analysis as communism fell in Eastern Europe.
Cold War

The CIA’s National Intelligence Dailys and the Events of 1989-1990

Dec 13, 2019
 // Charles Kraus
Cold War

A New Socialist Hungary? Remembering the Defeat of the Hungarian Revolution 63 Years Later

Dec 04, 2019
 // Cole Falkner
A toppled statue of Stalin in Hungary, 1956. Source: Fortepan #93005, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cold War

Recovering Disputed Sound: RFE Hungarian Revolution Broadcasts

Oct 31, 2019
 // A. Ross Johnson
A merchant in the Millionka. Source: State Archive of Primorsk Region (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Primorskogo kraia) in Vladivostok. Obtained by Austin Jersild.
Cold War

Chinese in Peril in Russia: The “Millionka” in Vladivostok, 1930-1936

Oct 29, 2019
 // Austin Jersild
Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki speaks before the United Nations on the denuclearization of Central Europe. Source: UN Audiovisual Library, #2232383.
Nuclear History

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

Sep 23, 2019
 // Ryan Alexander Musto
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