The subsciption-based Digital National Security Archive - available in the world’s leading academic libraries - unlocks a vast trove of over 750,000 important declassified U.S. government documents critical to understanding the history of U.S. foreign policymaking in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The digitized documents, published with our partners at ProQuest, are made available in over 40 topic-based collections. Two new collections, edited by Archive staff and fellows, and indexed by professional librarians, appear each year.
The most recent published collections include "U.S. Nuclear History, 1969-1976: Weapons, Arms Control, and War Plans in an Age of Strategic Parity" and "The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement II: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977;" upcoming collections include "The President’s Daily Brief: Kennedy, Johnson, and the CIA" - which will cover a wide range of topics including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, U.S-Soviet relations, and conflicts sparked by decolonization in Indonesia, Africa, and the Middle East.
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Published Collections Included:
- Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973–1990
- The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1962
- China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- 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
- The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983-1988
- 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
- Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978–1990
- The Philippines: U.S. Policy during the Marcos Years, 1965–1986
- Presidential Directives on National Security, Part I: From Truman to Clinton
- South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989
- The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947–1991
- U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947–1996
- The U.S. Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations, and Management, 1947-1989
- 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
- Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002
- Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush
- U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
- Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
- U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975
- Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1977–1992
- The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969–1977
- The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
- U. S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
- The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
- Peru: Human Rights, Drugs, and Democracy: 1980-2000
- US Intelligence Community after 9/11
- The National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009
- The United States and The Two Koreas, 1969-2000
- The United States and the Two Koreas, Part II, 1969-2010
- Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
- US Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis, and Covert Action
- Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990
- Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000
- Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy
- CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010
- Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013
- The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
- Electronic Surveillance: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
- CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975