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"The Bundeshaus (Federal Building) in Bonn, West Germany, May 1961. "

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Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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Aerial view of National Mall

North America

United States

George H.W. Bush and Lech Walesa

CIA Reports on the Collapse of Communism in Europe

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France

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Great Britain

Photograph of Helmut Kohl, 1982.

Kohl, Helmut

1930- 2017

Berlin Wall between Mitte and Kreuzberg

Berlin Wall

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931- 2022

A photo of Henry Kissinger from 1975

Kissinger, Henry

1923-

Official portrait for President George H.W. Bush, 1989.

Bush, George H.W.

1924- 2018

Photograph of Gorbachev-Bush summit at Malta, 1989

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Nuclear Proliferation

German Reunification

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Abrasimov, P.A. (Pyotr Andreievitch)

1912- 2009

Truman with Attlee and Stalin at Potsdam

Cold War Origins

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December 8, 1989	East Germany: Free Election Set Roundtable Shares Power An analysis of Communist and opposition leaders' decision to host free elections.
December 5, 1989	East Germany: Fresh Opposition Support for Reunification An analysis of growing support for reunification and its role in the upcoming free elections.
November 28, 1989	Special Analysis: Germanys: Betrothed, No Date Set An analysis of the future of relationship between East and West Germany and their potential unification.
October 27, 1989	Special Analysis: The Germanys: Reunification -- What Would Have to Happen An analysis of what German unification would look like.
September 22, 1989	East Germany: Prospects After Honecker An analysis of what a new East German government may look like.
December 10, 1957	Letter, Nikolai Bulganin to Dwight D. Eisenhower Bulganin proposes a halt on nuclear tests among the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom beginning on January 1, 1958.
September 26, 1986	Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Intelligence, 'European Review [Redacted]' Brief summaries of intelligence from Europe.
July 15, 1965	Research Memorandum REU-25 from Thomas L. Hughes to the Secretary, 'Attitudes of Selected Countries on Accession to a Soviet Co-sponsored Draft Agreement on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons' With a nuclear nonproliferation treaty under consideration in Washington, INR considered which countries were likely to sign on and why or why not. INR analysts, mistakenly as it turned out, believed it unlikely that the Soviet Union would be a co-sponsor of a treaty in part because of the “international climate” and also because Moscow and Washington differed on whether a treaty would recognize a “group capability.”
January 31, 1962	Research Memorandum REU-25 from Roger Hilsman to Mr. Kohler, 'European Attitudes on Independent Nuclear Capability' Concerns about the credibility of US nuclear deterrence generated Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Lauris Norstad’s proposal for a NATO-controlled medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) force. This lengthy report represented INR’s assessment of “present and future European interest in national or multinational nuclear weapons capabilities,” including the MRBM proposal, and the extent to which an “enhancement of NATO's nuclear role” could “deter national or multinational European nuclear weapons programs.”
June 4, 1957	Department of State Office of Intelligence Research, 'OIR Contribution to NIE 100-6-57: Nuclear Weapons Production by Fourth Countries – Likelihood and Consequences' This lengthy report was State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research's contribution to the first National Intelligence Estimate on the nuclear proliferation, NIE 100-6-57. Written at a time when the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom were the only nuclear weapons states, the “Fourth Country” problem referred to the probability that some unspecified country, whether France or China, was likely to be the next nuclear weapons state. Enclosed with letter from Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Division of Research for USSR and Western Europe, to Roger Mateson, 4 June 1957, Secret