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June 1968	CPSU CC Decree, 'Regarding the Signing of the NPT' The CPSU CC outlines the details and logistics of the NPT's signing in Moscow. Along with nominating a reception hall and authorizing Gromyko to sign the treaty, this decree focuses on the publication of an official memorandum suggesting urgent measures to end the arms race.
September 17, 1947	George C. Marshall, 'A Program for a More Effective United Nations: Address by the Chief of the U.S. Delegation to the General Assembly' Marshall speaks about Greece, Palestine, and Korea, as well as the international control of atomic energy and the role and structure of the United Nations.
September 5, 1968	Directives for the USSR Delegation to the XXIII Session of the General Assembly of the UN on the Issue of the Memorandum of the USSR Government on Some Urgent Measures to Halt the Arms Race and on Disarmament Directives for the USSR Delegation to the XXIII Session of the General Assembly about halting the arms race and on disarmament.
September 7, 1989	National Intelligence Daily for Thursday, 7 September 1989 The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for 7 September1989 describes the latest developments in the United States, Colombia, South Africa, Lebanon, Netherlands, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Belize, Bolivia, Argentina, and Iran.
February 12, 1981	GDR-Iran Exchange of Opinions Representatives of the German Democratic Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran discuss the arms race, the presence of superpowers in Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean, the Iran-Iraq conflict, and the potential for bilateral cooperation between East Germany and Iran.
February 6, 1978	Message from the President of the [Democratic] People's Republic of Korea and the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Il Sung, to the President of the [SF] Republic [of Yugoslavia], Josip Broz Tito. Kim Il Sung criticizes Park Chung Hee and says the United States should "remove" him.
July 7, 1973	Message from the President of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Il Sung, to the President of the [Socialist Federal] Republic [of Yugoslavia], Josip Broz Tito Kim Il Sung asks President Tito to support the North Korean government’s efforts for the peaceful unification of the Peninsula.
February 1, 1970	Letter, Isa Yusuf Alptekin, President of the National Center for the Liberation of Eastern Turkestan, to President Richard Nixon Isa Yusuf Alptekin writes to President Nixon to explain the plight of his people and to request assistance.
September 13, 2018	Oral History Interview with Richard Butler Australian diplomat and expert involved in the 1995 Non-Proliferation Treaty Extension Conference.
April 12, 2017	Oral History Interview with Nabil Fahmy Nabil Fahmy is an Egyptian diplomat and politician who has served in various official posts in the Egyptian cabinet and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including serving as a member of the Egyptian mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva and New York and political advisor from August 1993 to September 1997.