Since the 1950s, US military personnel traveling with the President have carried a special case best known as the nuclear “Football,” which includes information on emergency procedures, nuclear war plans, and communications arrangements with DOD and key allies. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
"The heroic excavators of government secrets" - Author Stephen Kinzer on 40 years of the National Security Archive
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/o...
Rachel Santarsiero on the chronology of disappearing data under the Trump administration that she has compiled for the National Security Archive
www.youtube.com/shorts/su2Lj...
The late, great Bill Burr wrote an excellent piece about the nuclear "Football" just last year for Arms Control Today.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/defaul...
PBS: "Take a look at the Iran-U.S. Relations Project of the National Security Archive, which focuses on declassified documents..." www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/classroom-voices/educator-voices/2026/04/backgrounder-history-of-iran-late-19th-century-to-present
Since the 1950s, US military personnel traveling with the President have carried a special case best known as the nuclear “Football,” which includes information on emergency procedures, nuclear war plans, and communications arrangements with DOD and key allies. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
PBS: "Take a look at the Iran-U.S. Relations Project of the National Security Archive, which focuses on declassified documents..." www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/classroom-voices/educator-voices/2026/04/backgrounder-history-of-iran-late-19th-century-to-present
ICYMI: The @nsarchive.bsky.social published the new Disappearing Data Chronology to track major data losses (and wins!) of the last year.
As @lyndamk.bsky.social put it in an email, we’re going to need resources like these “in putting the pieces back together.”
nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
Rachel Santarsiero on the chronology of disappearing data under the Trump administration that she has compiled for the National Security Archive
www.youtube.com/shorts/su2Lj...
Drums carrying HEU to be transported to the United States.
"The documents describe an extraordinary secret mission: In the autumn of 1994, the team of 31 Americans slipped quietly into a remote area of Kazakhstan to secure the 1,320 pounds of weapons-grade uranium and airlift it safely out of the country to the [US]." nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
The National Security Archive is a nonprofit housed at GWU, not a govt agency. They FOIA for the public good, capturing an enormous amount of U.S. history.
Their Chronology itemizes >100 disappearances, from shutting the Spanish WH website to purging Holocaust remembrances from DOD website. 😢
every once in a while I find something so immediately relevant to my dissertation (around the politics of government data and data quality) that I metaphorically sprint to bookmark it
that discovery has been via bluesky a non-zero number of times
Now that the 10th annual #NYCOpenDataWeek is over (and what a fun, celebratory week it was), time to get back to defending the (often shrinking) open society at large. Projects like this are important, as is @datarescueproject.org.
A wonderful new resource on disappearing data under the second Trump administration:
Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.
Archive fellow Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi and Luca Trenta on"Khamenei's Killing and the Perilous Death of the Assassination Ban"
www.justsecurity.org/135015/khame...
Tried to argue emails didn’t count-Clinton too-and @nsarchive.bsky.social stopped that (my sis being counsel)
The @nsarchive.bsky.social has published a new document collection, "CIA Covert Operations: The Truman Years, 1946-1953," now available from ProQuest as part of the Digital National Security Archive.
Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
Feb 3, 2025 - We started fighting to save our data.
July 3, 2025 - We launched #SaveOurSigns with Minn librarians.
April 2026 - We are still talking about the importance of public data as a public good.
❤️🛟
🔔 Introducing the Disappearing Data Chronology—a timeline tracking the Trump admin’s fundamental changes to the information landscape, including major data losses / restorations, legal challenges, and threats to archival collections.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
@nsarchive.bsky.social
Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
The Archive's 2026 Sunshine Week FOIA:
Law Gives Agencies 20 Working Days to Respond; Agencies Give Requesters…3, 5, 7 Working Days? Or Close
Via @nsarchive.bsky.social by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social and Wendy Valdes. nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f...
In 1975, the former CIA chief of station in Congo was interviewed by members of the Senate "Church Committee" which was investigating various CIA abuses, including the assassination plot against Lumumba. (Source: JFK assassination records)
Source: www.archives.gov/files/resear...
In 1975, the former CIA chief of station in Congo was interviewed by members of the Senate "Church Committee" which was investigating various CIA abuses, including the assassination plot against Lumumba. (Source: JFK assassination records)
It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...
Americas long standoff with Cuba: Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh spoke with CBC Radio
www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...
Big new: A judge has ruled that ICE can’t ignore FOIA because of a lapse in funding and must produce records in response to a @freedom.press FOIA lawsuit.
That’s great news, in no small part because the records will shed light on obfuscation of congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities.
