National Security Archive

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/27/2022
  

  Newly Translated Documents Give Fuller Picture of Nuclear Danger During Cuban Missile Crisis

  The National Security Archive has released an English translation of the account of a Soviet submarine officer of events in October 1962 tells the story of how his vessel's commander nearly launched nuclear weapons against US Navy ships enforcing the quarantine of Cuba.  

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  1/21/20
  

  National Security Archive Releases USCYBERCOM documents which shed new light on the campaign to counter ISIS in cyberspace

  by Michael Martelle

  New FOIA documents show challenges in operational synchronization, deconfliction, and inter-agency coordination.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  11/5/19
  

  National Security Archive, SHAFR, and CREW Sue Pompeo, State Department over Failure to Create Records

  by Lauren Harper and Tom Blanton

  Evidence from the House’s impeachment inquiry, including from Ambassador William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires for Ukraine under the Trump administration, and from former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, all speak to a pattern and practice of bypassing official record-keeping procedures at the State Department.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/30/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Briefing Book on Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959

  by William Burr

  During Mid-1960s Turkish Officials Were Interested in Producing an “Atomic Bomb”

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/2/19
  

  National Security Archive, CREW, Historians Ask Federal Judge to Preserve Head of State Records

  by Tom Blanton

  Government agrees to preserve White House records.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/9/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Documents on the First Soviet Nuclear Test Offering New Information on Beginning of Nuclear Arms Race

  by William Burr

  The newly declassified documents reveal the Soviet atomic project posed a major challenge to U.S. intelligence and expands our knowledge of the role of German scientists in advancing the Soviet nuclear program.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  8/15/19
  

  National Security Archive Releases New Briefing Book on Chernobyl through the Eyes of the Soviet Politburo, KGB, and U.S. Intelligence

  Declassified documents detail highest-level reactions, cover-ups, critiques using sources never before translated into English.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  4/18/19
  

  Redactions: The Declassified File

  The release of the redacted Mueller report today focuses new public attention on the systemic problem of over-classification. Here are some classic examples of U.S. government over-zealousness in applying a figurative Magic Marker to information that was already public or should be public.

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• SOURCE: AP
  4/16/19
  

  Redaction nation: US history brims with partial deletions

  The released Mueller Report will likely be highly redacted. Here's the history behind those black marks. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  3/24/19
  

  Trump Administration to Turn Over Trove of Declassified Records to Argentina on Human Rights Violations Committed During Military Dictatorship

  The turnover of formerly secret U.S. intelligence records—the collection will include CIA, FBI, NSC, and Defense Intelligence Agency documents—will culminate a special U.S. government declassification project authorized three years ago today by then-President Barack Obama.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/19
  

  The government effort to make FOIA “as bad as possible”

  by Nate Jones

  The Department of Justice's historical effort to weaken the Freedom Of Information Act and why Congress must strengthen the law. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  2/28/19
  

  National Security Archive Sues Defense Information Agency for Able Archer 83 Document

  by Nate Jones

  The Archive filed suit after receiving no substantive response to the FOIA request for six months. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  2/22/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Declassified Documents on Dick Cheney

  by Tom Blanton and Nate Jones

  Oscar-worthy Documents on the Dark Side, from Cheyenne to Baghdad

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  1/29/19
  

  National Security Archive Releases New documents on Soviet 1979 Invasion of Afghanistan

  Declassified Documents Show Moscow’s Fear of an Afghan Flip, U.S. Diplomat’s Meeting with Afghan Leader Helped Put Soviets Over the Edge

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  1/7/19
  

  "Choice" Magazine Names "Digital National Security Archive" an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018

  The annual award goes to publications deemed especially worthy of attention from academic librarians seeking to build research collections.

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• 5-17-13
  

  1983: The Most Dangerous Year of the Cold War

  by David Austin Walsh

  Credit: militarists.ru.Just how close did the world come to full-blown nuclear war in the 1980s?Frighteningly close.That's the conclusion of researchers at the National Security Archive at George Washington University, which released on May 16 a collection of documents on the 1983 Able Archer war scare, the closest the Cold War came to turning hot since the Cuban Missile Crisis.Many of the documents come from Soviet archives, and are summarized in English; others came from the U.S. government after Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requestsThe release is the first in a series of three postings; the second will consist of U.S. military documents, the third documents from the U.S. intelligence community. (The National Security Agency, the website notes, refused to release its relevant documents after a 2008 FOIA request, but “did review, approve for release, stamp, and send a printout of a Wikipedia article.”)