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Declassified Documents

Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Consists of curated and indexed government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.
Tutorial for the Digital National Security Archive database.
Weapons of Mass Destruction This link opens in a new window
https://brill.com/display/db/wmd?language=en

International History Declassified (Wilson Center Digital Archive)
This archive focuses on foreign government documents declassified, with particular emphasis on the Cold War, nuclear proliferation, and Korea.
National Security Archive (at GW)
Electronic Briefing Books may be of interest. An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
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An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.

Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents, as well as specialized resources such as dissertations, reports, and position papers from universities, research institutions, think tanks, U.S. local and state agencies, and international organizations. View a tutorial on this database here.
Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Departments Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955 This link opens in a new window
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Declassified by the State Department, the records provide valuable insight into numerous domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the post-war period. Comprises all 41 reels of the former Scholarly Resources microfilm product entitled Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955.