Cold War
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
DeWitt, Hugh E. "Labs drive the arms race," in Len Ackland & Steven McGuire (eds.) Assessing the Nuclear Age: Selections from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Chicago IL: Education Foundation for Nuclear Science), pp. 101-106. Nuclear scientists' ambition catalyzing nuclear proliferation.
Flaherty, Patrick. "Origins of the cold war: new evidence," Monthly Review 48,1 (5/96):35-47.
Flynn, Michael. "Spy mania," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 58,5 (9-10/2002):15-16. US & the Soviet KGB.
Hamburg, David A. & Alexander L. George. "Nuclear crisis management," in Len Ackland & Steven McGuire (eds.) Assessing the Nuclear Age: Selections from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Chicago IL: Education Foundation for Nuclear Science), pp. 203-210.
Holloway, David. "Lessons of the arms race," in Len Ackland & Steven McGuire (eds.) Assessing the Nuclear Age: Selections from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Chicago IL: Education Foundation for Nuclear Science), pp.135-142.
Thompson, Edward P. "Notes on exterminism, the last stage of civilization," New Left Review 121 (5-6/80):3-31.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Berghahn, Volker R. America & the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (Princeton NJ: Princeton U., 2000).
Blum, William. Killing Hope: US Military & CIA Interventions since World War II (Monroe ME: Common Courage, 2003).
Brune, Lester. Chronology of the Cold War (ed. Richard Dean Burns; NY: Routledge, 2005). More an encyclopedic history than a time-line.
Filipelli, Ronald N. American Labor & Postwar Italy, 1943-1953: A Study of Cold War Politics (Stanford: Stanford U., 1989).
Fishbine, Glenn. Children of Usher: Growing Up in Los Alamos (Columbus OH: GOM, 2004). Children's games & attitudes among those who grew up thinking the unthinkable about global annihilation.
Heil, Alan L. Jr. Voice of America: A History (NY: Columbia, 2003).
Leffler, Melvyn P. & David S. Painter. The Origins of the Cold War: An International History (NY: Routledge, 2005).
Lipschutz, Ronnie D. Cold War Fantasies: Film, Fiction & Foreign Policy (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
Richmond, Yale. Cultural Exchange & the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain (University Park: Pennsylvania State U, 2003).
Schlesinger, Arthur M. "A long view of the cold war," History Today (1/01):29-37.
Wohlforth, William C. (ed.) Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, Debates (University Park: Pennsylvania State U, 2003).