The Digital National Security Archive reproduces declassified documents on post-World War II U.S. foreign and military policy. These documents are gathered by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research institute at George Washington University. DNSA is made available through ProQuest.

DNSA documents are obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. More than 63,000 documents - 488,000 pages - are gathered into 30 subject case-study collections, including:

• The CIA Family Jewels index
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 and The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
• Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
• U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
• Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002
• China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
• The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
• U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968 and U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975
• The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977 and The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977

Each DNSA subject collection includes extensive supporting documentation, including chronologies, lists of dramatis personae, critical apparatus, and bibliographies that constitute important reference works in their own right. Several of the DNSA subject collections are also held in microfiche format in the Van Pelt Microtext Center.

For more information:
Nick Okrent, U.S. History bibliographer
Lauris Olson, social sciences bibliographer