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Description: DNSA contains primary documents central to United States foreign and military policy since 1945 obtained by the National Security Archive. Collections include:

  • Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
  • Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962
  • China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
  • Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  • Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of
  • Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
  • Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide:
  • Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
  • El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
  • El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
  • Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980
  • Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal
  • Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
  • Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976
  • Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part II, 1977-1992
  • Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
  • Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
  • Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
  • Philippines: U.S. Policy during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986
  • Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to William Clinton (Part I)
  • Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush (Part II)
  • South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989
  • Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
  • Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002
  • U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947-1996
  • U.S. Intelligence Community, 1947-1989
  • U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
  • U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991
  • U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955-1968
  • U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945-1991
  • U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
  • U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975


Coverage: 1945 to present

Subject(s)
Area Studies
Government Documents
History, Genealogy & Archives
Military Science & National Security
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Related Links
CIA Electronic Reading Room
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National Archives Access to Archival Databases (U.S.) ** http://www.archives.gov/aad/ **
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