Basic National Security Policy (BNSP)

[Referenced in Chapter 8 of The Doomsday Machine]

Daniel Ellsberg’s Draft of the BNSP, May 9, 1961 (unredacted, from Ellsberg’s files)

Daniel Ellsberg’s Draft of the BNSP, May 9, 1961 (redacted; declassified by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 5/9/83)

Parts of the same draft, obtained by the National Security Archive via FOIA, 1999

Ellsberg’s notes on the BNSP—notes written 1961, typed 1976