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Churchill in the Nuclear Age
The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 2
The impossible dream of an Anglo-American atomic monopoly was Churchill’s and Roosevelt’s most ambiguous, hubristic, geopolitical legacy.
The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 1
There was “much fog on all sides,” but the United States agreed to share atomic bomb secrets with Britain—and no one else.
Ghost in the Attic (2): Churchill, the Soviets and the Special Relationship
“This essay on importance of relations with Stalin in shaping the Churchill-Roosevelt relationship, is a brief historical gem.” —Nigel Lawson
Ghost in the Attic (1): Churchill, the Soviets and the Special Relationship
Did Churchill turn somersaults over the Soviets? Yes and with good reason. We understand events better through good historians, and hindsight.
The Rhetoric of Cold War: Churchill’s 1946 Fulton Speech
As the postwar world began to take shape, Churchill, as in the 1930s, predicted danger ahead. Initially, his cries fell on deaf ears. Out of power, he watched as the United States’ and his country’s foreign policy drifted towards what he perceived as another disaster—communism’s ascendancy. Then a letter arrived from President Harry Truman, inviting him to speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri in March 1946. It was an opportunity for Churchill to shape history once again. Though what came to be known as his “Iron Curtain Speech” received mixed reactions at the time, today, scholars recognize that it laid the foundation of public opinion needed for the West to pursue a vigorous challenge to Soviet hegemony.