James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Here is my review of #TheBrinkofWar: www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...realcleardefense.comRonald Reagan’s Star TurnA Hollywood treatment of real-life events, “The Brink of War” gets off to an inauspicious start. The Cold War was “at its most critical point” in October 1986, reads the openin 000
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In advance of the release of the movie #TheBrinkofWar next month, here is a #FRUS Starter Pack with documents on the 1986 #Reykjavik Summit👇 100
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Here is the Report to Congress on The Foreign Relations of the United States Historical Series for 2025👇 110
Reposted by James Graham WilsonOutrider Foundation @outrider.org · 26/02/2026The film, A House of Dynamite, depicts the tense options leaders have as a nuclear weapon hovers over Chicago. Author @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social looks at nuclear alerts and system failures of the 1980s through the lens of the modern film. Read the story 👇 outrider.org/nuclear-weap...outrider.orgThe House of Dynamite We Forgot: And What We Can Learn From Nuclear HistoryRevisiting Nuclear Alerts and System Failures of the 1980s 031
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Thanks so much for the opportunity to wire this piece! 183
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026I didn’t write this to scare people. www.linkedin.com/posts/james-...linkedin.comSomething FRUS Is Happening | James Graham WilsonI didn't write this to scare people. #TeamFRUS #FRUS John Powers Virginia Kinniburgh Joe Wicentowski Lynette Evans-Tiernan Elizabeth Charles Tristan Williams Lydia Sizer, PhD Sara Berndt Brad Mori... 010
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Act now — before that other House does! 000
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Love, but make it grand strategy. 💘 America’s Cold Warrior (Paul Nitze, Roosevelt→Reagan) is $12.59 on Amazon (hardcover). #ValentinesDay #BookSky #ColdWar #NatSec #USHistory #StrategicStudies 210
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026In 2025 the Office of the Historian released 3 #FRUS publications. (In 2026 we are going to publish many more.) Here is Reagan NSP 85-88 Part I. Covering the Strategic Defense Initiative and many more topics that are especially relevant today. #aha26 history.state.gov/historicaldo... 300
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Want to get up to speed on the history of US and #Greenland? Here are 442 ways👇 #FRUS #AHA26 #SHAFR 122
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Here is my article from last year on the history of the United States and Greenland. #AHA26 cc @cornellupress.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-d...engelsbergideas.comThe deep history behind America's Greenland gambitIn the long history of the United States' interest in Greenland, the pursuit of patient negotiations with allies has often fulfilled Washington's strategic requirements. This may not be the case in 20... 093
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Here is Max Kampelman’s Diary for June 1985: open.substack.com/pub/diaryofm...open.substack.comMax Kampelman's DiaryJune 1985 030
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025open.substack.com/pub/diaryofm...open.substack.comRebooting The Diary of Max Kampelman, 1985-1988On a 40-year lag 010
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 08/11/2025“The risk of war can never be zero.” — Paul Nitze America’s Cold Warrior by James Graham Wilson 💥 The movie is fiction. Nitze lived it. 💰 $15.65 (< 1 month of Netflix) amzn.to/49G4ypB%EF%B... #HouseOfDynamite #PaulNitze #AmericaColdWarrior #HistoryMatters #NetflixDeal #ColdWar 131
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Here is my review of #AHouseofDynamite: www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...realcleardefense.com 000
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025My thoughts on #AHouseofDynamite www.vassar.edu/news/new-thr... (From before seeing the movie, which I have since watched.)vassar.eduNew Thriller, A House of Dynamite, Depicts a Nuclear Crisis Involving the U.S. | Vassar College 000
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025In advance of Netflix’s A House of Dynamite, revisit the real false nuclear alerts of 1979-1980. From FRUS: National Security Policy, 1977–1980 ⬇️ #ColdWar #HouseOfDynamite #FRUS #NuclearHistory #Carter 152
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025🧊📈 Cold War Arbitrage How to turn Amazon’s pricing algorithm — and my own book — into a 79% return before October 27. 👇 THREAD 👇 100
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025📉 COLD WAR YOLO 📈 Opened a full position in $NITZE — 4 copies at $11.73. Target: $32.95. This isn’t a meme. It’s monetized grand strategy. #AmericasColdWarrior #BuyLowDeclassifyHigh #HistoryStocks #WallStreetBetsForHistorians #ColdWarAlpha 020
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025🎄 The holiday shopping season approaches… and the furlough drags on. 📚 For $35, I’ll send you an inscribed copy of “America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan.” 🎁 Perfect for that special (or unspecial) person in your life. 📬 Send me a DM 🐱no included 011
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025For a limited time you can pick up a copy of #AmericasColdWarrior for the ridiculous price of $12.57. Cheaper than a Sweetgreen 🥗! 121
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025@bcdreyer.social here is one for you — from the latest #FRUS volume. Arnie Kanter: “a nothing-burger or worse.” 020
Reposted by James Graham WilsonJames Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 is out today! Huge congratulations to @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social and the rest of the team at the State Department's Office of the Historian. history.state.gov/historicaldo... 13514
Reposted by James Graham WilsonSHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social · 30/09/2025New FRUS release! START I, 1989–1991 the FIRST from the administration of George H.W. Bush. history.state.gov/historicaldo... 063
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Want to get up to speed on the history of the United States and nuclear arms negotiations during the #ColdWar? #FRUS can help. Here are some key volumes, starting with the #JFK era👇 211
Reposted by James Graham WilsonSHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Our friends at the Office of the Historian have been busy! Out today are three chapters from Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume XXVII, Western Europe: Canada, West Germany, and the Nordic countries. history.state.gov/historicaldo... #FRUShistory.state.govHistorical Documents - Office of the Historianhistory.state.gov 3.0 shell 2145
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Really excited to get this #FRUS volume out the door! 3555
Reposted by James Graham WilsonJames Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 01/08/2025It's FRUS Friday! NEW: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLIV, Part 1, National Security Policy, 1985–1988 history.state.gov/historicaldo...history.state.govHistorical Documents - Office of the Historianhistory.state.gov 3.0 shell 073
Reposted by James Graham WilsonPaul Avey @paulcavey.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I'm always excited when a new FRUS volume comes out. Here's the latest on National Security Policy in the Reagan Administration, focused on SDI and strategic modernization in 84-88, put together by @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social. history.state.gov/historicaldo...history.state.govHistorical Documents - Office of the Historianhistory.state.gov 3.0 shell 021
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Here is Maureen Dowd’s Pool Report for July 4, 1991: 010
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025#AmericasColdWarrior is $19.28 on Amazon. That is less than a Sweetgreen salad plus the brown rice square. amzn.to/45NBF9d #booksky 161
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Brian Blessed as Grampy Rabbit is surely the best part of Peppa Pig. 000
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025@rjgranieri.bsky.social A remake of this as well! Would be nice. 100
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025@strombergsteve.bsky.social (I have rediscovered my random assortment of gifs.) 000
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025$19.28 is even better! amzn.to/4l2WAtv 010
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Here are the late Barry Blechman’s notes from July 1976: 100
Reposted by James Graham WilsonCornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Visit our virtual display booth for the #SHAFR2025 Annual Meeting. Use promo code 09EXP40 to take 40% off and redeem free shipping on these titles (US only, excludes Leuven UP). @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #ForeignRelations See all featured books: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/our-shafr-20... 044
Reposted by James Graham WilsonCornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 18/06/2025NEXT WEEK: 5 Days, 5,000+ Books, 50% OFF Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print* between Monday, June 23rd and Friday, June 27th. Don’t miss out on this special opportunity. * US orders only. Excludes Leuven UP. Not applicable for pre-order books. #CUP5DaySale #ReadUP 064
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Dad once threatened to turn this car around—now turn his head with real Cold‑War intrigue. 🎁 America’s Cold Warrior is $19.28 on Amazon. Link & book cover below. Grab it before Father’s Day! 👉 amzn.to/4jRwHvv #FathersDay #History #booksky 020
