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September 14, 2012
Jimmy Carter's Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
Designed to Give President More Choices in Nuclear Conflict than "All-Out Spasm War".

September 11, 2012
The Haqqani History: Bin Ladin's Advocate Inside the Taliban
New Documents – Posted on 9/11 Anniversary – Offer Partial View Inside Newly-Dubbed Terrorist Network.

September 7, 2012
Nuclear Terrorism: How Big a Threat?
Documents Trace U.S. Nuclear Counter-Terror Efforts.

September 5, 2012
CIA "Mea Culpa" on Iraq WMD Analysis
ForeignPolicy.com features document National Security Archive obtained through Mandatory Declassification Review request.

August 15, 2012
Inside U.S.-Soviet Relations during the Carter-Brezhnev Period
Documents and Transcripts of Meetings between Leading American and Soviet Ex-Officials Explore Collapse of Détente in late 1970s.

July 23, 2012
Early Atomic Energy Commission Studies Show Concern over Gas Centrifuge Proliferation risk
It would "Not be too Difficult" to Build a Secret Plant to Produce Highly Enriched Uranium, AEC warned.

July 20, 2012
The Alexeyeva File
Soviet, American, and Russian Documents on the Human Rights Legend.

July 19, 2012
Documenting the FBI: Declassified Documents Provide New Detail on Confronting the Terrorist Threat – from al-Qaeda to Skinheads
New Archive Posting Opens Window into Broad Range of Recent FBI Operations.

July 6, 2012
Trilateralism and Beyond
Great Power Politics and the Korean Security Dilemma during and after the Cold War.

July 5, 2012
STOLEN BABIES: Argentina Convicts Two Military Dictators
In Unprecedented Testimony, Former US Assistant Secretary of State Confirmed Military Kidnappings of Children of Disappeared Political Prisoners in the 1970's.

July 4, 2012
Happy 46th Birthday, Freedom of Information!
National Security Archive Compilation of 46 News Stories.

June 20, 2012
Japan and the United States from Kennedy to Clinton
New National Security Archive Publication Makes Available 900 Formerly Classified Documents.

June 19, 2012
The Central Intelligence Agency's 9/11 File
Top Secret CIA Documents on Osama bin Laden Declassified.

May 29, 2012
Mighty Derringer
U.S. Nuclear Terrorism Exercise Leaves Indianapolis in "Ruins."

May 25, 2012
Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1972
Soviet government official Anatoly Chernyaev records an insider's view of the Brezhnev era.

May 10, 2012
CIA ALLOWED TO SUSTAIN COVER-UP OF BAY OF PIGS HISTORY
Judge Denies Declassification of Final Volume of CIA Official Report on Invasion of Cuba.

May 3, 2012
Update: The Guatemalan Death Squad Diary and the Right to Truth
National Security Archive Expert Testifies before International Court.

April 27, 2012
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program
Findings that General Zia Had "Lied" About Pakistani Nuclear Activities Conflicted with U.S. Afghanistan Priority.

April 26, 2012
Taylor Verdict Milestone for International Justice
Liberian Warlord Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity During Sierra Leone's Civil War. Freedom of Information Documents Detail Human Rights Abuses in Liberia.

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