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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: 
This page provides access to full-text articles - many covering Cold War nuclear topics - from the print journal back to 1990.

Center for the Study of Intelligence:
This official historical arm of the Central intelligence Agency, offers several full-text online publications.

Foreign Relations Series
This U.S. State Department page includes full-text original documents from the departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and other agencies. Topics include the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and U.S.-Soviet relations.

NSA Cryptologic History:
This National Security Agency site has sections on the Cuban Missile Crisis and on the Venona intercepts of Soviet intelligence messages during the 1940's. Each section combines narrative with scanned versions of declassified NSA documents.

Race for the Superbomb:
Taken from the PBS American Experience series, this article covers the story of the U.S.-Soviet race to build the first hydrogen bomb in the early 1950's.

Revelations from the Russian Archives
A Library of Congress online exhibit of translated Soviet documents, with scanned versions of the originals.

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