Cold War Era

Provides full-text (transcribed) of various primary documents relating to the Cold War.

Provides access to declassified documents of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Partially digitized collection which includes materials from 1938-1970.

This website, created in 1994 under the Office of Human Radiation Experiments, tells the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects with various multi-media souces from declassified government documents, films, soundclips, and photographs.

includes transcripts of 1,743 interviews with Foreign Service Officers and others involved in American diplomacy,particularly those serving between the 1940s and the 1990s, and covering all the major events of the Cold
War.

Full text of over 144,000 pages of source materials from the hearings of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, which existed from 1946 to 1977 to "make continuing studies of the activities of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and of problems relating to the development, use, and control of atomic energy.

Library Congress Digital Collections. Search results filtered to 1947-1986 with the search term "Cold War."

Resources from the National Security Archive's Nuclear Documentation Project.

Features various collections on different aspects of the Cold War.

Contains digitized materials from the Library's collections, as well as finding aids and descriptions of collections not yet digitized.

This collection focuses on the ideals that formed the basis of American policy toward the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War.

Contains resource guides on every U.S. President. Cold War Presidents include:
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, L.B. Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and G.H.W. Bush