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Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, James Hershberg is a professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia University and Tufts University. Hershberg is a leading scholar on Cold War history and a former Director of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. His first book was on the life of former Harvard President James Bryant Conant.

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James Hershberg's Published Works

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James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age (1993) (76)
A fiery peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon (2012) (29)
Before “The Missiles of October”: Did Kennedy Plan a Military Strike Against Cuba? (1990) (28)
Marigold (2020) (21)
The United States, Brazil, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 (Part 1) (2004) (17)
Collateral Damage? “Marigold,” Franco–American Relations, and Secret Vietnam Peace Diplomacy, 1966–1967 (2017) (15)
The United States, Brazil, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 (Part 2) (2004) (15)
‘High-Spirited Confusion’: Brazil, the 1961 Belgrade Non-Aligned Conference, and the Limits of an ‘Independent’ Foreign Policy during the High Cold War (2007) (12)
“Explosion in the Offing”: German Rearmament and American Diplomacy, 1953–1955 (1992) (12)
Their men in Havana: Anglo‐American intelligence exchanges and the Cuban crises, 1961–62 (2000) (9)
Reading and Warning the Likely Enemy: China's Signals to the United States about Vietnam in 1965 (2005) (8)
Peace Probes and the Bombing Pause: Hungarian and Polish Diplomacy During the Vietnam War, December 1965January 1966 (2003) (7)
The Cuban missile crisis (2010) (6)
Who murdered "Marigold"? : new evidence on the mysterious failure of Poland's secret initiative to start U.S. - North Vietnamese Peace Talks, 1966 (2000) (6)
"One Misstep Could Trigger a Great War": Operation RYAN, Able Archer 83, and the 1983 War Scare (2009) (5)
The war in Afghanistan and the Iran-Contra affair: Missing links? (2003) (4)
“Over My Dead Body”: James B. Conant and the Hydrogen Bomb (1988) (3)
James B. conant and the atomic bomb (1985) (3)
Soviet-Brazilian Relations and the Cuban Missile Crisis (2020) (3)
Quietly Encouraging Quasi-Alignment : US-Indian Relations, the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962, and the Downfall of Krishna Menon (2012) (2)
Where the Buck Stopped: Harry S Truman and the Cold War (2003) (1)
Reconsidering the nuclear arms race: the past as prelude? (1994) (1)
Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist (2019) (0)
A brilliant organizer (2002) (0)
Reflections on George F. Kennan: An American Life (2013) (0)
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold Warby James Mann (2010) (0)
Peace Proposals, Diplomacy, and War: Was an Opportunity Lost for an Early Settlement in Vietnam? (2015) (0)
Comment (2004) (0)
The Brazilian Far Left, Cuba, and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1963 (2021) (0)
David K. Hecht. Storytelling and Science: Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age. (2016) (0)
Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age (review) (1999) (0)
Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll. By Jonathan M. Weisgall. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994. xx, 415 pp. $31.95, ISBN 1-55750-919-0.) (1995) (0)
Breaking the Ice (2019) (0)
Kennedy, Macmillan, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961–63. By Kendrick Oliver. (New York: St. Martin's, 1998. x, 252 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-312-17599-X.) (2000) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
History (2009) (0)
The Brazilian Far Left, Cuba, and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1963: (2021) (0)

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