Tag: State Department Office of the Historian

• Can’t Historians Predict the Future?

  

  Nostradamus could have been a policy wonk. My favorite not-so-witty quip during my public talks is “historians are always asked to predict the future.”  It usually gets a chuckle.  I say it as a cop-out when someone asks me about anything controversial: the future of nuclear power, the future face of warfare, or whether Iran…

  Jacob Darwin Hamblin

  February 4, 2013

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  arming mother nature, Cold War, environment, Henry Kissinger, history, IAEA, Iran, Naval Historical Center, NPT, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, public policy, Richard Armitage, Ronald Reagan, State Department Office of the Historian