The Cold War Historiography

Many aspects of the Cold War are still debated today; less obvious topics of discussion such as the specific dates the war began but, one highly debated part of Cold War historiography is simply, who is to blame? Who started the Cold War and should take the blame for the events that took place. Historians have written hundreds of articles and books on this topic, many laying the claim that they are certain who caused the war but no definitive and unanimous answer has ever been proven. Many aspects of the work available debate different events that took place during the Cold War including the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945, however in this essay I will be concentrating on the historiography that utilizes the foreign