Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)

This resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews to provide unparalleled access to the defining international issues of our time.

The University's access includes the following databases:

• The Afghanistan War and the United States, 1998-2017
• Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990
• CIA Family Jewels Indexed.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update.
• Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden.
• 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.
• 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.
• U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968.
• U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975.
• U.S.-Russia Relations: From the Fall of the Soviet Union to the Rise of Putin, 1991-2000

For a complete description of each database, please see the individual entries on the alphabetical databases pages.