James Graham Wilson, America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan (Cornell University Press, 2024) On May 11, 1987, Secretary of State George Shultz celebrated the ...

On Jan. 17, 1950, a midlevel staffer at the State Department, in charge of its policy-planning team, wrote to Secretary of State Dean Acheson proposing a study on the implications of moving toward an ...

James Graham Wilson. America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze & National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan (Ithaca, Cornell University Press) 336 pp., $32.95. Ten years ago, James Graham Wilson, a historian ...

The publication of a new biography of Paul Nitze, who served in national security posts in Democrat and Republican administrations between 1940 and 1989, is a good moment to reflect on the need for ...

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It was a simple service to remember a complex man. Paul H. Nitze, a consummate Washington insider whose government service spanned eight presidencies, was remembered yesterday in a one-hour service at ...

As I sat in the Benedict Music Tent on Saturday morning listening to the Dalai Lama, I found myself wondering whats on his bookshelf these days. For a spiritual leader, his tastes seem to lean more ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Paul H. Nitze, who pursued a hard-line approach toward the Kremlin as he helped shape U.S. diplomatic and military strategy during the Cold War, has died. He was 97. His son William ...

Though overshadowed by better-known statesmen of his era, Paul Nitze was instrumental in shaping U.S. nuclear policy toward the Soviet Union. Review by Richard Aldous ...

Where’s Paul Nitze?” A U.S. intelligence expert complained to me a few months ago. “Where’s our strategic plan? Where’s the NSC-68 for the war on terror?” He was referring to the famous 1950 National ...