Farewell Oppenheimer

This is a guest post by Peder Anker, author of For The Love of Bombs It is often said that history is written by its winners, and the history of the atomic bomb is no exception. From 6 August 1945 – the day the United States dropped the bomb on...
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Russian studies will never be irrelevant

This is a guest post by Lee A. Farrow, author of Potential Russia When the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist in 1991, I had just completed my master’s degree and my first summer in Russia. Immediately, people assumed that my field was now pointless and irrelevant, and casually commented...
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