Professor John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis is a Robert A. Lovett professor of history at Yale University. Previously, he was a distinguished professor of history and director of the John and Elizabeth Baker Peace Studies Program at the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, Athens. Gaddis is also the author of several major works on Cold War history, including "The United States and the Origins of the Cold War," "Strategies of Containment," "The Long Peace, The United States and the End of the Cold War," and, most recently, "We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History."

Professor Lawrence Freedman
Lawrence Freedman is a professor of war studies at King's College, University of London. A prominent British historian, he has written several books, including "The Atlas of Global Strategy," "The Price of Peace," "Britain and the World," "Britain and the Falklands War," "The Gulf Conflict, 1990-91," and "War." He is currently writing a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Dr. Vladislav Zubok
Dr. Vladislav Zubok is one of the leading historians of the Cold War and the author of "Inside the Kremlin's Cold War." He has studied extensively in Soviet and American archives and has taught classes on the Cold War at Amherst College, at Ohio University in Athens and at Stanford University. In 1993, Zubok was employed at the Kennan Institute for advanced Russian studies in Washington, D.C., and since then has worked at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo and is now a fellow at The National Security Archive in Washington D.C.