Security Issues Online

Security Issues Online is a collection of digitized primary source materials on threats to global security in the 20th and 21st centuries, including espionage, terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, cybersecurity, biological weapons, and nuclear threats. It includes comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major events and themes. The collection aims to cover a wide range of global conflicts, but some of the most extensive groups of resources are in the areas of:

• 1960 U-2 Incident
• Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and Civil War
• The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1961-1962
• Iran (1940s - Present)
• Soviet Union and International Relations
• Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive
• World War II and Intelligence, 1939-1945

Please note that some items may contain views, imagery, or terminology that may be inaccurate, biased, or offensive. 

This collection may be searched alongside other primary source collections in Global & International Studies Collection (Alexander Street).