If you are interested in history or lived through part of the Cold War and want to see how it influenced current events then there are two sets of documents just published by the National Security Archive at George Washington University which are worth the time:

* "Henry Kissinger’s Documented Legacy" - A Declassified Dossier on HAK’s Controversial Historical Legacy, on His 100th Birthday
Kissinger’s 8 Years in Power Changed Chile, Cambodia, East Timor, Angola, and Much of the World, for the Worse¹.

* "Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1983" - At the Central Committee: “what a humiliating role I am in, doing everything I can to dress a naked, completely naked king”
KAL shootdown “showcased with monstrous obviousness the power and pressure of the ‘military complex’ over our entire life and politics”
On nuclear war: “this vast world, full of fantastic achievements of the human mind and labor, can in a few short minutes fall victim to a nervous breakdown of one of the two ‘superpower’ leaders”².

#Kissinger #Chernayaev #NationalSecurityArchive #GWU #ColdWar

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¹ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cold-war-henry-kissinger/2023-05-25/henry-kissingers-documented-legacy
² https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs-russian-pages/2023-05-25/anatoly-s-chernyaev-diary-1983