The House of Dynamite We Forgot: And What We Can Learn From Nuclear History

Revisiting Nuclear Alerts and System Failures of the 1980s

By James Graham Wilson
February 25, 2026
Netflix
James Graham Wilson

James Graham Wilson works on Soviet and National Security Policy volumes for the Foreign Relations of the United States series in the Office of the Historian at the Department of State. He is the author of America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024) and The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev’s Adaptability, Reagan’s Engagement, and the End of the Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014).

 
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