Declassified Documents
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Cold War Studies at Harvard UniversityIncludes an online document archive.
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Cold War International History Project -- Wilson Center Digital Archive"Constructed and maintained by the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, the Digital Archive contains newly declassified historical materials from archives around the world—much of it in translation and including diplomatic cables, high level correspondence, meeting minutes and more. "
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U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy : A Video History, 1945-2004Starting with World War II and the atomic bombing of Japan, this policy-oriented documentary takes the story of U.S. nuclear policy, with a focus on the history of nuclear deterrence through the course of the Cold War, and then from the early post-Cold War period to the aftermath of 9/11."
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National Security ArchiveThe National Security Archives collects documents released via Freedom of Information Act requests.
The freely available material on the website includes Electronic Briefing Books providing overviews and selected documents on over 450 topics.
Proquest is digitizing the complete archive on a collection-by-collection basis. See also the Cornell library's subscription to Proquest Digital National Security Archive, below. -
Proquest Digital National Security ArchiveDigitized collections of the National Security Archive.
Note: The library has been purchasing collections by request.
Browsing the collection:
To get a better sense of what's in a particular collection, go to http://proquest.libguides.com/dnsa/collectionlist.