65 yrs after first one, Trump's 'Bay of Pigs' may take many forms
The Archive's Peter Kornbluh on the "sobering lessons" of the failed paramilitary invasion of Cuba in April 1961 responsiblestatecraft.org/cuba-bay-of-...
65 yrs after first one, Trump's 'Bay of Pigs' may take many forms
The Archive's Peter Kornbluh on the "sobering lessons" of the failed paramilitary invasion of Cuba in April 1961 responsiblestatecraft.org/cuba-bay-of-...
In the wake of the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion, President Kennedy considered reconfiguring and even dismantling the Agency, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 65th anniversary of the paramilitary assault on Cuba. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Great collection of documents here from @nsarchive.bsky.social for the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion... important warnings for today, too! #History #Cuba 🗃️
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In the wake of the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion, President Kennedy considered reconfiguring and even dismantling the Agency, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 65th anniversary of the paramilitary assault on Cuba. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
From 2021: "On June 7, 1981 ... Israel attacked and partially destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear research reactor at Tuwaitha, using U.S. supplied F-15 and F-16 aircraft to carry out the attack." nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
From 2021: "On June 7, 1981 ... Israel attacked and partially destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear research reactor at Tuwaitha, using U.S. supplied F-15 and F-16 aircraft to carry out the attack." nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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.
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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...
