The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events. But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war.

The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events.

But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://t.co/He7uuXasVB pic.twitter.com/wPa04OwqAx

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