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Sources and Methods

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

Cold War

The Myth of the Wilsonian Moment

Jun 17, 2019
 // Brett Reilly

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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
Koreans welcome the first chief of the Polish Mission to the NNSC, Gen. Mieczysław Wągrowski, in summer 1953. Source: Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance.
Modern Korean History

North Korea Revelations from the Polish Archives: Nukes, Succession and, Security

Apr 08, 2019
 // Marek Hańderek
Cold War

US-Iran Relations: The Scowcroft Transcripts

Apr 01, 2019
 // Andrew Scott Cooper
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
Gorbachev and Reagan sign the INF Treaty on December 8, 1987. Source: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, ARC Identifier 198588.
Nuclear History

Forgotten Parties to the INF

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