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Washington, D.C., November 21, 2024 - The National Security Archive filed suit in federal court today to contest the estimated 12-year backlog of Freedom of Information requests for presidential records held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
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History Coalition Warns of Critical Needs at National Archives | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., July 23, 2024 - A major report on the current state of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently released by the National Coalition for History (NCH) includes a critical assessment of the state of declassification: “For the sake of accountability and a...
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Privacy harms have become one of the largest impediments in privacy law enforcement. In most tort and contract cases, plaintiffs must establish that they have been harmed. Even when legislation does not require it, courts have taken it upon themselves to add a harm element. Harm is also a...
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Colombia Project | National Security Archive
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Promoting access to information and the preservation of the historical record in support of peace, accountability and transitional justice in Colombia.
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The End of the Soviet Union 1991 | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., December 21, 2021 – On Christmas Day 30 years ago, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, stepped down and the hammer-and-sickle flags over the Kremlin were replaced with the red-white-and-blue of the Russian Federation. Triumphalists and conspiracy theorists...
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Cyber Brief: The NSA's Cryptolog | National Security Archive
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Update Washington, D.C., February 24, 2022 – The nongovernmental National Security Archive’s Cyber Vault today supplemented one of its more popular resources – the National Security Agency’s (NSA) periodical Cryptolog – with newly released materials from the agency’s long-running in-house...
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Washington D.C., April 12, 2019 – In late May 1976, the secret police chieftains of six Southern Cone military regimes gathered at a clandestine summit in Santiago, Chile, to create a “new unit, which was given the code name ‘Teseo’”—a reference to Theseus, the mythical Greek King of the...
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“Rigged” War Game Exposed U.S. Vulnerability to Low-Tech Warfare | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., November 1, 2024 - A recently declassified “after-action” report from a 2002 war game “triggered internal warnings that the U.S. military was vulnerable to low-tech warfare,” according to an article in this week’s Washington Post written by National Security Archive fellow Nate Jones.
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The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50 | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., September 9, 2024 – Fifty years ago, as the New York Times prepared to break a major exposé on CIA covert operations in Chile, the architect of those operations, Henry Kissinger, misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of...
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The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50 | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., September 9, 2024 – Fifty years ago, as the New York Times prepared to break a major exposé on CIA covert operations in Chile, the architect of those operations, Henry Kissinger, misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of...
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Washington D.C., September 13, 2022 - On the 5th anniversary of the CIA’s September 13, 2017, decision to pull its agents out of Cuba, after several operatives were stricken with what has become known as the “Havana Syndrome,” the National Security Archive today posted the first of a...
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Castle BRAVO at 70: The Worst Nuclear Test in U.S. History | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., February 29, 2024 - Seventy years ago, on 1 March 1954 (28 February in Washington), the U.S. government air-dropped a thermonuclear weapon, code-named “Shrimp,” on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in what turned out to be the largest nuclear test in U.S. history.
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Explore the colorful landscape of Open Access publishing models and discover why Diamond OA is the key to a more equitable future for scholarly communication.
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First Monday and October 2024 cases
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The first block of SCOTUS arguments starts with some procedural issues but then hears cases concerning regulation of "ghost guns," prosecutorial misconduct in death penalty cases, RICO damages, immigration procedure, and veterans benefits before wrapping up with a major Clean Water Act case....
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US public access policies overlook research software. Learn why code sharing is key for open science and how institutions can lead the way in this vital shift.
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Washington, D.C. February 7, 2017 – CIA covert aid to Italy continued well after the agency’s involvement in the 1948 elections – into the early 1960s – averaging around $5 million a year, according to a draft Defense Department historical study published today for the first time by the National...
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US federal policies are transforming research accessibility. Learn how the Holdren and Nelson memos are shaping open access and the NSF's implementation.
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Dark chocolate lovers may want to limit their consumption to an ounce a day to stay on the safe side, GW researchers say.
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History Coalition Warns of Critical Needs at National Archives | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., July 23, 2024 - A major report on the current state of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently released by the National Coalition for History (NCH) includes a critical assessment of the state of declassification: “For the sake of accountability and a...
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The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945 | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., July 16, 2024 - On 16 July 1945, 79 years ago, the United States, under the Manhattan Project, staged the first test of a nuclear weapon in the New Mexican desert. The first trial of a plutonium implosion weapon, the explosion on the ground produced radioactive fallout...
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Program on Extremism | The George Washington University
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Our Mission: Founded in 2015, the Program on Extremism at George Washington University has quickly become a leading research center on all forms of extremism.
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Trump Hides White House Visitor Logs | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., April 14, 2017 – The Trump White House announced today it would no longer disclose the routine visitor logs maintained by the Secret Service and published online by the Obama administration since 2009, and claimed national security and privacy risks.
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A new GW Politics Poll sheds light on why Donald Trump’s support remains strong despite various challenges
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NATO-Russia charter 1997 was “forced step,” said Yeltsin | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., July 9, 2024 - Hailed at the time as an historic change “burying” a Cold War rivalry, the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997 was privately characterized as a “forced step” by Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who told U.S. President Bill Clinton that he opposed NATO expansion but...
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Washington, D.C., June 18, 2024 - On June 18, 1974, the official registry of the Chilean military dictatorship published Decree 521 on the “creation of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA),” the secret police force responsible for some of the regime’s most emblematic human rights crimes.
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Chiquita Found Liable for Colombia Paramilitary Killings | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., June 10, 2024 – Today, an eight-member jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, found Chiquita Brands International liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization, the United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), that was responsible for major human rights...
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Chiquita Found Liable for Colombia Paramilitary Killings | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., June 10, 2024 – Today, an eight-member jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, found Chiquita Brands International liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization, the United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), that was responsible for major human rights...
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Chiquita Found Liable for Colombia Paramilitary Killings | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., June 10, 2024 – Today, an eight-member jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, found Chiquita Brands International liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization, the United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), that was responsible for major human rights...
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NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard | National Security Archive
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Western leaders gave multiple assurances against NATO expansion to Gorbachev in 1990-1991 according to declassified American, Russian, British, Germans documents
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Ivory Item: Carter First U.S. President to Participate in Nuclear Drill | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., May 31, 2024 - On 6 October 1977, President Jimmy Carter and top U.S. national security officials dialed into a secret “Missile Attack Conference” (MAC) to coordinate a response to a simulated surprise nuclear strike on the United States. Organized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
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Ivory Item: Carter First U.S. President to Participate in Nuclear Drill | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., May 31, 2024 - On 6 October 1977, President Jimmy Carter and top U.S. national security officials dialed into a secret “Missile Attack Conference” (MAC) to coordinate a response to a simulated surprise nuclear strike on the United States. Organized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
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Waiting for Gorbachev: The Chernyaev Diary, 1984 | National Security Archive
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Washington D.C., May 25, 2024 - The National Security Archive today marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 103rd birthday with the publication for the first time in English of his diary for 1984. A top aide to Mikhail Gorbachev who later became one of the most important...
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Washington, D.C., April 18, 2024 - After nine years of unwanted delays, the State Department’s Office of the Historian (OH) last month published a new Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) compilation on national security policy under President Jimmy Carter that will be of great value to...
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By the time George W. Bush took office in January 2001, the nuclear Football had been an instrument of presidential control of nuclear weapons for more than 40 years. The following photographs, released by the Bush LIbrary in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, illustrate how the...
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The Presidential Nuclear "Football" From Eisenhower to George W. Bush | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., July 18, 2023 – A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded “Football” that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the federal government sweeping emergency powers were of “doubtful legality,” “badly out of date,” and...
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There are two more weeks of regularly scheduled arguments in the “October 2023” term. I want to get this post up concerning the upcoming week; another post to come concerning the final cases. That final week will have important and high-profile cases concerning anti-homelessness ordinances,...
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U.S. National Archives’ 2025 Budget Request Threatens Mission Failure | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., March 15, 2024 - The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is requesting less funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 than it received in FY 2024, threatening to worsen an already dire budget crisis for the steward of priceless U.S. government records.
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J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium | GW Law | The George Washington University
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Please join the GW Law Environmental and Energy Law Program for its second annual Shapiro Distinguished Lecture.
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Argentina’s Military Coup of 1976: What the U.S. Knew | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., March 23, 2021 - On the eve of the 45th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the National Security Archive is today posting declassified documents revealing what the U.S. government knew, and when it knew it, in the weeks preceding the March 24, 1976, overthrow of...
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Socialite and Businessman: The Controversial Life of W. W. Corcoran
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By Steven Seggi and Tejal Mathew B.S. ‘24, Political Science, George Washington University B.A. ‘27, Political Science, George Washington University
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This webpage goes into depth about the various Platform Researcher Access Tools & The Brussels Effect.
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Important cases in the last two weeks of February, including EPA regulations, social media moderation, and bump stocks. Wednesday, February 21 The EPA’s Good Neighbor Plan is first up today in Ohio v. EPA and US Steel v. EPA. As the Congressional Research Service notes (in a report that would be...
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Washington, D.C., August 9, 2019 – Several previously unknown Henry Kissinger memoranda of telephone conversations – or telcons – from October 1973, uncovered by the National Security Archive, provide blunt and fascinating vignettes from a significant moment during the Nixon presidency.
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In Memoriam: Susan K. Sell, Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs
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Susan K. Sell, Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs Emeriti passed away on December 24, 2023. Susan was a faculty member in the political science department from 1991 to 2016. She served as Director of the Institute for Global and International Studies at the Elliott...
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Prized worldwide for producing vivid patterns and colors, the ancient resist-dyeing technique of ikat developed independently in communities across Asia, Africa and the Americas, where it continues to inspire artists and designers today.
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Thursday, Feb. 8 — Trump office eligibility & ballot access
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The Court convenes February 8 for an extraordinary Thursday session to hear arguments in Trump v. Anderson, in the specific issue of Donald Trump’s eligibility to be on the Colorado ballot for Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States, with obvious nationwide implications...
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The Clinton-Yeltsin Moscow Summit, January 1994 | National Security Archive
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Washington, D.C., January 25, 2024 - Declassified highest-level records from the Moscow summit 30 years ago this month detail U.S. President Bill Clinton’s strong personal support for Russian President Boris Yeltsin, their close cooperation on security issues, and deep concern about Yeltsin...
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