"This reference information paper identifies several representative series and datasets of textual, electronic, still picture, and motion picture records that document U.S., Government policies, programs, and actions during the Cold War ... For purposes of establishing the subject scope of this paper, the years of the Cold War era were loosely defined as 1945 to 1991 (from the end of the World War II through the dissolution of the Soviet Union into the Commonwealth of Independent States). The compilers have chosen to exclude coverage of the Korean War and the Vietnam War from the narrative because NARA-held documentation relating to these topics is extensive and complex, requiring separate descriptive coverage"--Introduction.