5 August 2020 — National Security Archive
Updated National Security Archive Posting Marks 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Japan and the End of World War II
Extensive Compilation of Primary Source Documents Explores Manhattan Project, Eisenhower’s Early Misgivings about First Nuclear Use, Curtis LeMay and the Firebombing of Tokyo, Debates over Japanese Surrender Terms, Atomic Targeting Decisions, and Lagging Awareness of Radiation Effects
21 July 2020 — The National Security Archive
CIA Document Leads Human Rights Investigators to Previously Unidentified Clandestine Torture Center
21 July 2020 — The National Security Archive
Germans and Italians Did Not Seek Formal Agreement to U.S. Nuclear Weapons Storage on Their Territory
10 July 2020 — The National Security Archive
Declassified U.S. Documents, Compiled by Archive, Used as Evidence in Spanish Prosecution
Former Salvadoran Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano Is on Trial For 1989 Slaying of Jesuit Priests in San Salvador Continue reading
19 June 2020 — The National Security Archive
17 June 2020 — The National Security Archive
13 June 2020 — National Security Archive
Washington, D.C., June 13, 1980 – The U.S. Embassy in Guyana in 1980 had strong evidence to believe that the death of internationally-known historian and activist Walter Rodney in the capital of Georgetown was a political assassination, according to declassified documents obtained and posted today for the first time by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University.
3 June 2020 — National Security Archive
Soviet leader receives ceremony and symbolic trade deal, not economic aid or arms cuts
Soviet and U.S. documents detail Gorbachev and Bush discussions on Germany, future of Europe, regional hot spots, and Moscow’s economic crisis
Award-winning Last Superpower Summits book forthcoming in paperback
16 March 2020 — National Security Archive
Eight Minutes After Warning Screens Showed 1,400 Soviet ICBMS Approaching North America, on 9 November 1979, NORAD Concluded “Attack Was Underway”
11 February 2020 — National Security Archive
Encryption revelations raise questions about U.S. official knowledge of Argentina “dirty war” atrocities, Chile’s Letelier assassination, Southern Cone military dictatorships
5 February 2020 — National Security Archive
U.S. Learned of the First ICBM Test from a Soviet Press Release and the Second from a Remark Made to a French Politician
Washington, D.C., February 5, 2020 – In the eyes of U.S. intelligence and the military services, the greatest threat to American national security during the early Cold War was the emerging Soviet missile program with its ability to deliver nuclear weapons to targets across the United States. Before the era of satellite surveillance, the U.S. scrambled to develop ever more effective intelligence-gathering methods, notably the U-2 spy plane, spurred on by having missed practically every important Soviet breakthrough of the time – including the first intercontinental ballistic missile tests and the world-changing Sputnik launches.
20 December 2019 — National Security Archive
New Digital National Security Archive Collection of 14,000 pages Covers the 1978-79 Revolution to the 2015 Nuclear Deal (JCPOA)
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 692
5 November 2019 — National Security Archive
4 November 2019 — National Security Archive
30 October 2019 — National Security Archive
22 September 2019 — National Security Archive
Controversy Hovers over Possible Nuclear Signal Detected in South Atlantic in 1979; Israeli or South African Origin Suspected by Some Experts – and President Carter
CIA Saw “Probability of a Nuclear Test as 90% Plus,” According to Newly Posted Document
Additional Evidence Casts Doubts on White House Science Advisers’ Dismissal of Possibility of a Nuclear Test
3 May 2019 — National Security Archive
Washington D.C., May 3, 2019 – The National Security Archive, along with 15 other media organizations, filed a “friend of the court” brief on April 29 challenging the FBI’s authority to issue national security letters (NSLs) without any judicial oversight and under indefinite gag orders. The letters demand business records from a wide array of organizations for national security investigations, and their accompanying gag orders prohibit the recipient from speaking with anyone about the NSL, often permanently.
3 May 2019 — National Security Archive
2 May 2019 — National Security Archive
18 April 2019 — National Security Archive
The New Dark Age 