18
November 2024
Past Event
America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: eheller@hudson.org

America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan

Past Event
Hudson Institute
November 18, 2024
President Ronald Reagan with Medal of Freedom winner Arms Negotiator Paul Nitze. (Diana Walker via Getty Images)
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President Ronald Reagan with Medal of Freedom recipient Paul Nitze. (Diana Walker via Getty Images)
18
November 2024
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: eheller@hudson.org

Speakers:
Jonathan Ward Hudson
Jonathan Ward

Former Senior Fellow

Dr. James Graham Wilson
Dr. James Graham Wilson

Supervisory Historian, United States Department of State

Paul Nitze is best known as the author of NSC 68, a national security strategy that helped shape the Cold War era, the policy of containment, and with it, modern American history, including Cold War victory over the Soviet Union. 

State Department Historian Dr. James Graham Wilson will discuss his biography of Nitze, America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan, with Hudson’s Dr. Jonathan Ward, an expert on US-China competition and the author of The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph over China.

The talk will cover Nitze’s life and legacy, his enduring impact on American history, and lessons for present-day national security and foreign policy in the face of renewed competition and conflict with Russia and China.

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