Path: voxbox!hypnos!ragnarok.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!kira.cc.uakron.edu!neoucom.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!news.mid.net!not-for-mail From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu> Newsgroups: comp.internet.net-happenings Subject: MISC> Current US National Security Directives published Message-ID: <3tuelf$6e3@westie.mid.net> Date: 11 Jul 1995 13:07:43 -0500 Sender: infoserv@news.mid.net Organization: MIDnet, the Midwest's Gateway to the Global Internet. Lines: 96 Approved: ralphie NNTP-Posting-Host: westie.mid.net *** From Net-Happenings Moderator *** Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 18:15:21 -0500 From: SIMPSON@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Current US National Security Directives published CURRENT U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY DIRECTIVES PUBLISHED This announcement is likely to be of particular interest to librarians, historians, and journalists specializing in government documents, international affairs, military affairs and military history, nuclear policy, outer space, and US trade and technology policy..... Thank you for letting me share this with you. -- Christopher Simpson I've compiled an unusually complete collection of presidential National Security Decision Directives from the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush (1981-1993). The collection is similar in certain respects to the well known _Foreign Relations of the United States_ (FRUS) series, but is far more current. The declassified texts of more than 250 NSDD's are included; each text has an introduction describing its origin and context; and there is an extensive cross-index and subject index. The collection goes considerably beyond the NSDDs available at the US National Archives or in any other collection, because it includes verbatim texts of directives that have been leaked in whole or in part by the administration, but not formally declassified. It also includes tables of organization of the National Security Council. The new collection's format also makes it much less expensive, and easier to use, catalog and store than any comparable microform or hard copy collection. Major areas of coverage include: ++ management of US national security policy, covert operations, weapons procurement, arms control negotiations, and anti-terrorism policies; ++ US relations with Israel, Europe, USSR, China, Australia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Central America, East Africa, Japan, Germany, Southeast Asia, Micronesia, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, the Philippines, Yugoslavia, South Africa and Namibia, etc., etc. ++ nuclear weapons procurement and testing, nuclear arms control; internal debates over SALT, ABM, START, SDI and related matters; civil defense and FEMA; ++ Space policy, privatization of space assets, NASA-DOD conflicts, space and aerospace procurement; ++ Trade policy with Japan, G-7 summits, technology transfer, export controls, economic warfare, subsidies for strategic US industries; ++ Telecommunications and computer policy, including technology security policies; ++ drugs and US foreign policy; ++ the Iran-Contra affair and its aftermath; ++ internal security and emergency continuity of government policies; ++ war with Iraq; and much more. For further information: _National Security Directives of the Reagan and Bush Administrations; The Declassified History of US Political and Military Policy 1981-1991,_ by Christopher Simpson. 1032 pages. Westview Press, 1995 isbn: 0-8133-1177-2 list: $119.95 telephone: 303-444-3541 fax: 303-449-3356 "... absolutely indispensable for studying U.S. national security policies during the Reagan and Bush administrations." Melvyn Leffler, President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations "... painstaking and expert analysis... an important benchmark" Charles Tiefer, Deputy General Council and Solicitor, US House of Representatives =====================================================