This archive presents a vast, expertly curated, comprehensive collection of significant primary source documents, arranged in collections, that are central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.
■The following collections are available.
- Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960–1976
This collection pulls together more than 2,000 primary source documents detailing the relationship between the United States and Japan during the formative years of their modern alliance. - Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1977–1992
This collection is the most important compilation of documents publicly available on relations between the United States and Japan during the Carter, Reagan, and H.W. Bush presidencies. - Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000
This collection, which supplements the first two sets on U.S.-Japan relations with the very latest declassified records, spanning the years from the Kennedy to Clinton presidencies across four decades. - U.S. Intelligence and China : Collection, Analysis, and Covert Action
This collection includes more than 2,300 documents providing new insights into aspects of intelligence operations, revealing U.S. concerns about its rival, China, and its ally, Taiwan. - U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991
The set provides a detailed record of U.S. military space organizations, operations and policy from 1945 to the present, including the origins of military space programs, the evolution and capabilities of various space systems. - U.S. Nuclear History, 1969-1976: Weapons, Arms Control, and War Plans in an Age of Strategic Parity
This essential resource details the nuclear weapons policies of the Nixon and Ford years, a critical period in the nuclear age. The emergence of MIRVs and ABMs as well as enduring global concerns such as arms control are richly documented. - U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968
This collection comprehensively documents major developments in U.S. 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. - U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945–1991
Spanning the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the IAEA inspections of Iraq's nuclear program, this collection offers researchers the most complete set of primary source materials to U.S. non-proliferation policy available. - U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
This collection documents the deadliest conflict in modern U.S. history prior to the current war against terrorism. - U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975
This is the most important compilation of documents available on the final phase of the Vietnam War. - U.S. Policy toward Iran: From the Revolution to the Nuclear Accord, 1978-2015
Collection of 1,761 primary source documents on U.S.-Iranian relations, including declassified U.S. government agency documents from the period prior to the 1978 Iranian revolution through the 2015 nuclear deal.