LibGuides: Digital National Security Archive (DNSA): Collections by Subject

DNSA is comprised of many collections. Collections may be searched individually or together. Click on the links to see a description of each collection and links to content from that collection.

DNSA Collections in Alphabetical Order
DNSA Collections in Release Order

Regional Collections

Asia Collections

Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973–1990
Afghanistan War and the United States, 1998-2017
China and the U.S.: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998
Japan and the U.S.: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960–1976
Japan and the U.S.: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1961-2000
Japan and the U.S.: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1977–1992
The Philippines: U.S. Policy During the Marcos Years, 1965–1986
U.S. and the Two Koreas, Part I, 1969-2000
U.S. and the Two Koreas, Part II, 1969-2010
U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975

Latin America Collections

Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights
Chile and the U.S.: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990
Colombia and the U.S.: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
Cuba and the U.S.: The Declassified History of Negotiations to Normalize Relations, 1959-2016
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update
Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the U.S., 1954-1999
The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983–1988
Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013
Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978–1990
Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1984
El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994

Middle East Collections

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
Targeting Iraq, Part 1: Planning, Invasion, and Occupation, 1997-2004
Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002
U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
U.S. Policy toward Iran: From the Revolution to the Nuclear Accord, 1978-2015

Subject/Topical Collections

Cold War Collections

The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1962
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947–1991
U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947–1996
U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991
U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968
Soviet-U.S. Relations: The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991

Human Rights Collections

Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy
Chile and the U.S.: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990
Colombia and the U.S.: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the U.S., 1954-1999
El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994
Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989

Intelligence Collections

CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010
CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975
CIA Covert Operations III: From Kennedy to Nixon, 1961-1974
CIA Covert Operations, Part IV: The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1961
Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden
The National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009
The President’s Daily Brief: Kennedy, Johnson, and the CIA, 1961-1969
The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947–1991
Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002
U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement, 1981-2015
U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947–1996
U.S. Intelligence Community After 9/11
U.S. Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations and Management, 1947–1989
U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991

Subject/Topical Collections - continued

Military Collections

Afghanistan War and the United States, 1998-2017
Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the U.S., 1954-1999
Donald Rumsfeld's Snowflakes, Part I: The Pentagon and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2001-2003
Donald Rumsfeld's Snowflakes, Part II: The Pentagon and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2004-2006
Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978–1990
El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994
Targeting Iraq, Part 1: Planning, Invasion, and Occupation, 1997-2004
Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002
U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975

Nuclear Collections

U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968
U.S. Nuclear History, 1969-1976: Weapons, Arms Control, and War Plans in an Age of Strategic Parity
U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945–1991
U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation 2, Part I: From Atoms for Peace to the NPT, 1954-1968

Presidential Policy Collections

Presidential Directives on National Security, Part 1: From Truman to Clinton
Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush
The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement II: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The President’s Daily Brief: Kennedy, Johnson, and the CIA, 1961-1969
The President’s Daily Brief: Nixon, Ford, and the CIA, 1969-1977