James Graham Wilson

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Here is the Report to Congress on The Foreign Relations of the United States Historical Series for 2025👇

The House of Dynamite We Forgot: And What We Can Learn From Nuclear History Revisiting Nuclear Alerts and System Failures of the 1980s

The film, A House of Dynamite, depicts the tense options leaders have as a nuclear weapon hovers over Chicago.

Author @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social looks at nuclear alerts and system failures of the 1980s through the lens of the modern film.

Read the story 👇
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Thanks so much for the opportunity to wire this piece!

Something FRUS Is Happening | James Graham Wilson I didn't write this to scare people. #TeamFRUS #FRUS John Powers Virginia Kinniburgh Joe Wicentowski Lynette Evans-Tiernan Elizabeth Charles Tristan Williams Lydia Sizer, PhD Sara Berndt Brad Mori...

I didn’t write this to scare people.

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Where I do all of my business!

I am insulted by your question.

Congrats!!!

Act now — before that other House does!

America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan

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Love, but make it grand strategy. 💘
America’s Cold Warrior (Paul Nitze, Roosevelt→Reagan) is $12.59 on Amazon (hardcover).
#ValentinesDay #BookSky #ColdWar #NatSec #USHistory #StrategicStudies

cc @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Here is the link to the Status of the #FRUS series👇

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It is an incredibly exciting time to be working on these volumes with fantastic colleagues.

#AHA26 #TeamFRUS

And START I, 89-91, which covers US-Soviet negotiations leading up to the landmark START Treaty in 1991.

Grappling with this volume is especially important as New START is set to expire in February 2026.

#aha26 #FRUS #TeamFRUS

Here are compilations on Canada, West Germany, and Nordic countries from the Jimmy Carter administtation👇

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In 2025 the Office of the Historian released 3 #FRUS publications.

(In 2026 we are going to publish many more.)

Here is Reagan NSP 85-88 Part I.

Covering the Strategic Defense Initiative and many more topics that are especially relevant today. #aha26

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Want to get up to speed on the history of US and #Greenland? Here are 442 ways👇

#FRUS #AHA26 #SHAFR

The deep history behind America's Greenland gambit In the long history of the United States' interest in Greenland, the pursuit of patient negotiations with allies has often fulfilled Washington's strategic requirements. This may not be the case in 20...

Here is my article from last year on the history of the United States and Greenland. #AHA26 cc @cornellupress.bsky.social

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Max Kampelman's Diary June 1985

Here is Max Kampelman’s Diary for June 1985:

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Rebooting The Diary of Max Kampelman, 1985-1988 On a 40-year lag

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Oh yes—I too have been on the receiving end of multiple such volumes over the years!

There are alternative ways to access those, you know!

“The risk of war can never be zero.” — Paul Nitze

America’s Cold Warrior by James Graham Wilson
💥 The movie is fiction. Nitze lived it.
💰 $15.65 (< 1 month of Netflix)

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#HouseOfDynamite #PaulNitze #AmericaColdWarrior #HistoryMatters #NetflixDeal #ColdWar

For those who want to dig deep: here is the NSP 77-80 #FRUS volume to which Austin alludes:

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Here is my review of #AHouseofDynamite:

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My thoughts on #AHouseofDynamite

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(From before seeing the movie, which I have since watched.)

For real life!

By July–August 1980, the Pentagon and NSC were still untangling what went wrong.
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#HouseOfDynamite #ColdWar #Carter #FRUS

Jun 7–13, 1980 — Brown, Odom, and Eizenstat scramble to correct “false missile alerts.”
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#NuclearHistory #FRUS