James Hershberg, a Cold War historian, rates Cold War scenes in movies based on their realism.

He separates fact from fiction regarding the nuclear arms race and atomic secrets depicted in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" (2023), starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, and Emily Blunt; Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964), with Peter Sellers; and "The Hunt for Red October" (1990), starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. Hershberg also explains the details of the Cold War's proxy wars, shown in "Charlie Wilson's War" (2007), starring Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman; "Thirteen Days" (2000), with Kevin Costner; and "WarGames" (1983), with Matthew Broderick. Lastly, he discusses the tactics and realism of spying and spycraft portrayed in Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" (2015), starring Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance; "The Lives of Others" (2006); and "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962).

Hershberg is a professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He used to run the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

You can find his books here:
"Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam": https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2...
"James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age":
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2162

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