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Sources and Methods

A blog of the History and Public Policy Program

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

Nuclear History

Forgotten Parties to the INF

Mar 04, 2019
 // Mariana Budjeryn, Ambassador Steven E. Steiner

Latest Posts

Image courtesy of the San Diego State University Network Television News Research Archive Special Collection.
Cold War

Brazil’s Cold War History: Disputed Territory

Mar 19, 2019
 // John Martin
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with Indian Prime Minister, October 1974. Source: Library of Congress cph.3b13867/Wikimedia Commons.
Nuclear History

Leaked Cables: Allende, Kissinger, Moynihan, and the Indian Nuclear Bomb

Mar 04, 2019
 // Debak Das
Post-Cold War

'At the very heart of Europe': New Evidence on John Major's Foreign Policy

Mar 01, 2019
 // Stephan Kieninger
Cold War

Mexico, the United States, and the Onset of the Nicaraguan Revolution

Feb 04, 2019
 // Gerardo Sánchez Nateras
A behind the scenes shot of the 1954 Tōhō film Gojira, showing the original Godzilla as an ancient radiation-breathing monster awakened by the hydrogen bomb. Released months after the Lucky Dragon accident during the Castle Bravo test, the movie spoke to Japan's victimization by nuclear weapons." Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Nuclear History

The Origins of Japan’s 'Nuclear Allergy'

Jan 28, 2019
 // Shi-Lin Loh
President Jimmy Carter is interviewed in 1980. Source: NLC-WHSP-C-17314, Jimmy Carter Library.
Archives

An Underutilized Bonanza: Using Existing Oral Histories vs. Conducting One’s Own Interviews

Jan 22, 2019
 // Liviu Horovitz
Kim Il Sung introduces Lê Thanh Nghị to North Korea's experience with building caves.
Modern Korean History

North Korean Military Engineer Regiment Helped Build Secret Underground Headquarters Complex during the Vietnam War

Jan 22, 2019
 // Merle Pribbenow
A photo ID card issued to a young Vladimir V. Putin by the Stasi. Source: BStU, MfS, BV Dresden, HA KuSch, Nr. 7216, pp. 4a-4b.
Cold War

Vladimir Putin’s Stasi ID: A Press Sensation and Its Historical Reality

Dec 17, 2018
 // Douglas Selvage
Image courtesy of the San Diego State University Library Special Collections.

What Brazil Can Learn from Its Torture Archive

Dec 12, 2018
 // John Martin
A July 22, 1993, letter from Foreign Minister Zlenko to President Kuchma suggesting a divergence in position between Russian the Ukraine on the problems related to nuclear weapons located in Ukraine.
Nuclear History

Security for Disarmament: Negotiating Ukraine’s Budapest Memorandum

Dec 05, 2018
 // Mariana Budjeryn
A group of North Koreans visit a borough in East Berlin in 1989. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0215-032.
Modern Korean History

North Korea and the Stasi Archives

Oct 29, 2018
 // Thomas Stock
Cold War

Author Commentary on Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War

Oct 19, 2018
 // Matthew Shannon