Together with the 15 collections already included in DNSA, the new collections make up a powerful research and teaching tool for the study of US foreign policy, intelligence, and security issues during the 20th century. Most of the documents are published here for the first time.

• China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998 contains more than 2,000 documents including studies on US diplomatic relations with China; records of the US-PRC security relationship; documents on the economic and scientific association with the PRC; intelligence estimates and studies of the PRC's foreign policy objectives, military capabilities and internal situation; and verbatim transcripts of every meeting held by US officials with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaopeng – including all five of Henry Kissinger’s meetings with Mao, published here online for the first time.

• El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994 holds several thousand US government documents relevant to human rights cases studied by the landmark United Nations Truth Commission. Its proceedings and all supporting documentation are included in this second set of declassified US records concerning El Salvador.  Following the 1993 release of the commission's ground-breaking investigation, From Madness to Hope: The 12-Year War in El Salvador, members of the US Congress asked President Clinton to declassify the government documents for public inspection.

• Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976 contains more than 2,000 primary source documents detailing the relationship between the US and Japan during the formative years of their modern alliance. The documents include records of historic US-Japanese summit meetings; communications between heads of state; top-level internal deliberations, including Nixon and Kissinger memoranda of conversation; and more.

• U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947-1996 provides a detailed description of the varied civilian and military organizations that constitute the US intelligence community, their past and present operations; and the mechanisms by which the community's activities are managed. The collection consists of 1,180 documents, totaling 36,023 pages.

• U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955-1968 documents major developments in US nuclear weapons policies and programs from the mid-1950s through 1968, the period that set the nuclear stage for the decades of the Cold War that followed. The documents in this collection introduce the reader to one of the critical inner mechanisms of the Cold War including the only available documented evidence that Dr. Strangelove was right – military commanders have pre-delegated authority to launch nuclear weapons in certain emergency conditions.

DNSA describes US relations with specific countries and events. It can be used as a case study of US foreign policy, CIA activities, US strategy, terrorism and covert operations worldwide. The collections are an essential resource for scholars and researchers in many fields: American and European history; foreign policy; political science; international relations; journalism; business; government; and Latin American and Asian studies. The database offers academic and governmental libraries a rich archive of materials not available elsewhere in electronic form.

The declassified documents that make up the growing database have been gathered through extensive use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  New topical collections will be added annually. Documents are targeted by skilled researchers with context provided by glossaries, bibliographies, chronologies and essays prepared by foreign policy experts.

Each collection offers specialized insights. Integrated, they allow users to explore policy across several different areas at once. Users may access essential primary documents with detailed authority-controlled indexing. They may search at item or page level across more than 20 combinable fields. Full page images offer views of the primary source. A names database allows search for all references, even if the name is incomplete or misspelled in the document.

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Founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars, the National Security Archive is a non-profit group in Washington DC that has developed a reputation as the most prolific and successful user of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In 2001, The Los Angeles Times described the Archive as "the world's largest nongovernmental library of declassified documents." It is located in the George Washington University's Gelman Library.  The Archive applies the latest in computerized indexing technology to the massive amount of material already released by the U.S. government on international affairs, making it accessible to researchers and the public, and building comprehensive collections of documents on specific topics of greatest interest to scholars and the public.

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