Operation Smiling Buddha was the assigned code name for India’s first nuclear weapons explosion on May 18th, 1974. India declared…
India and Pakistan on the Brink: The 1998 Nuclear Tests
In May 1998, India conducted its first nuclear bomb tests since 1974 at the Indian Army Pokhran Test Range. Known…
Service to American Farmers
Service to American Farmers Diplomats deliver for American farmers by opening foreign markets to products from our fields and factories…
Nominated Board Members
Dr. Sherry Lee Mueller, Sherry Lee Mueller, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the School of International Service…
Life After Foreign Service
Retirement from the Foreign Service or USAID rarely meant slowing down. For many officers, it became a second chapter full…
Saving American Families During the Fall of Saigon
Saving American Families During the Fall of Saigon After his childhood in Ohio and service in the Peace Corps…
Countering the Spread of HIV/AIDS
Countering the Spread of HIV/AIDS During a childhood that took him from West Virginia to Kentucky and then Texas,…
Avoiding Bloodshed With IranIn the Persian Gulf
Avoiding Bloodshed With Iran In the Persian Gulf During the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, merchant ships became regular…
Protecting U.S. Food Supplies from Invasive Pests
Protecting U.S. Food Supplies from Invasive Pests As agricultural minister-counselor in New Delhi, Allan Mustard oversaw U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Peregrina
Peregrina is the story of Ginny Carson Young, a young Foreign Service widow and mother who finds an unexpected second…