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Eisenhower Administration October 1952 Essay

November 1952: Imperatives of Foreign Policy

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United States July 1949 Essay

The Test of Yalta

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The big three at the Yalta Conference, 1945.

Arms Control & Disarmament Spring 1993 Essay

Reducing Nuclear Danger

The time is ripe for a global program to reduce existing nuclear arsenals and prevent their further proliferation. The immediate tasks are to execute agreed-upon...

McGeorge Bundy, William J. Crowe, Jr., and Sidney D. Drell

War & Military Strategy Fall 1991 Essay

Nuclear Weapons and the Gulf

Though nuclear weapons were not exploded in the coalition war against Iraq, they were 'used' in the sense of deterring use of chemical weapons by Iraq; however, US...

McGeorge Bundy

U.S. Foreign Policy America and the World 1989 Essay

From Cold War Toward Trusting Peace

General reflections on the promise of the 1990s, and the gap to be crossed from the dismantling of totalitarian states to the building of healthy and prosperous...

McGeorge Bundy

Arms Control & Disarmament Winter 1984/85 Essay

Arms Control: The President's Choice: Star Wars or Arms Control

The reelection of Ronald Reagan makes the future of his Strategic Defense Initiative the most important question of nuclear arms competition and arms control on the...

McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara and Gerard C. Smith

Arms Control Disarmament - Foreign Affairs

WMD & Proliferation Spring 1982 Essay

Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance

We are four Americans who have been concerned over many years with the relation between nuclear weapons and the peace and freedom of the members of the Atlantic...

McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara and Gerard C. Smith

Institutions Winter 1979/80 Essay

Reconsiderations: Vietnam, Watergate and Presidential Powers

One of the most important questions about the working of the United States government is the nature and location of the authority to use the armed forces of the...

McGeorge Bundy

Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of the Watergate tapes, April 29, 1974.

Arms Control & Disarmament America and the World 1978 Essay

High Hopes and Hard Reality: Arms Control in 1978

As 1978 ended, the United States and the Soviet Union were still short of a final agreement on their new strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II). Yet the...

McGeorge Bundy

U.S. Foreign Policy October 1969 Essay

To Cap the Volcano

The summer of 1969 has seen men on the moon and almost half the American Senate voting against a defense decision supported by two Presidents. In the summer pride of...

McGeorge Bundy

U.S. Foreign Policy January 1967 Essay

The End of Either/Or

The end of 1966 finds the United States with more hard business before it than at any time since 1962. We are embattled in Viet Nam; we are in the middle of a true...

McGeorge Bundy

A protester plants a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War, October 21, 1967.

Arms Control & Disarmament April 1964 Essay

The Presidency and the Peace

It is with some sense of temerity that a member of the White House staff undertakes to comment on the large topic of the Presidency and the Peace. Loyalty and...

McGeorge Bundy

U.S. Foreign Policy October 1962 Essay

Friends and Allies

Foreign AFFAIRS is forty years old-and the modern foreign affairs of the United States are less than ten years older. The problems we have today-of technology,...

McGeorge Bundy

McGeorge Bundy

November 1952: Imperatives of Foreign Policy

The Test of Yalta

Reducing Nuclear Danger

Nuclear Weapons and the Gulf

From Cold War Toward Trusting Peace

Arms Control: The President's Choice: Star Wars or Arms Control

Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance

Reconsiderations: Vietnam, Watergate and Presidential Powers

High Hopes and Hard Reality: Arms Control in 1978

To Cap the Volcano

The End of Either/Or

The Presidency and the Peace

Friends and Allies

Country Focus

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