As the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, scholars of contemporary international affairs started taking a new look at the basic conflicts that had dominated the latter part of the twentieth century. A plentiful new historical literature on the Cold War era has come into being, greatly helped by the increase in access to archives and other source materials in most countries of the world, from the former Communist states in Europe, to China, to South Africa and elsewhere.
Cold War History is based in the Cold War Studies Programme at LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics Centre for International Affairs, Strategy and Diplomacy. It makes available the results of recent research on the origins and development of the Cold War and its impact on nations, alliances and regions at various levels of statecraft, as well as in areas such as the military and intelligence, the economy, and social and intellectual developments. The new history of the Cold War is a fascinating example of how experts – often working across national and disciplinary boundaries – are able to use newly available information to refine, or in some cases destroy, old images and interpretations. Cold War History publishes the best of this emerging scholarship, from a perspective that attempts to de-centre the era through paying special attention to the role of Europe and the Third World. The journal welcomes contributions from historians and representatives of other disciplines on all aspects of the global Cold War and its present repercussions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Research Article
Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–1974) / Open Access Benoît Pelopidas & Sébastien Philippe Pages: 243-260 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2020.1832472
Normalisation of nuclear accidents after the Cold War Valerie Arnhold Pages: 261-281 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2020.1806239
Nuclear twins: French-South African strategic cooperation (1964–79) Anna Konieczna Pages: 283-300 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2020.1823968
From the dependable to the demanding partner: the renegotiation of French nuclear cooperation with India, 1974–80 Jayita Sarkar Pages: 301-318 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1694908
Nuclear reach: uranium prospection and the global ambitions of the French nuclear programme, 1945–65 Matthew Adamson Pages: 319-336 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2020.1806238
From Bonn with love: West German interests in the 1975 nuclear agreement with Brazil / Open Access Leonardo Bandarra Pages: 337-355 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2020.1819245
„Despite the special bonds that tie us“: Portugal, Brazil, and the South Atlantic in the late Cold War Pedro Seabra Pages: 357-374 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2020.1832471
REVIEW ESSAY
„An alien ideology“: Cold War perceptions of the Irish Republican Left John Mulqueen, (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019), 275 pp. + index Michael Cox Pages: 375-379 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2021.1906839
Book Review
The human factor: Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher, and the end of the Cold War Archie Brown, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 500 pp. Christopher Hill Pages: 381-383 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2021.1917047
Itineraries of expertise: science, technology and the environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War Edited by Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), xi + 347 pp. Jordan Howell Pages: 384-386 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2021.1934076
Peripheral nerve: health and medicine in Cold War Latin America Edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea Lópes, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020), 376 pp. Andre Pagliarini Pages: 386-389 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2021.1934077