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Suggested Online Archival Resources

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Avalon Project: Cold War	National Archives: Marshall Plan
CIA Reading Room	Truman Library: Marshall Plan
Eisenhower Documents	U.S. State Department: Cold War Records
Mount Holyoke Cold War Documents	U.S. State Department: Defense Treaties
National Archives: Cold War	Wilson Center Cold War History Project
National Security Council Document #68: Military Buildup	U.S. Dept. of Energy Human Radiation Experiment
NASA and Sputnik	Kennedy Library & Museum
Nixon Library & Museum: SALT & ABM	U.S. Secretary of Defense: Historical Office
"Revelations from the Russian Archives" Library of Congress	Cuban Missile Crisis: National Archives
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan / National Archives

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