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Able Archer 83: the Nato war-game that nearly spelled nuclear disaster In November 1983, Nato troops embarked on secret war-game exercises in Europe – and paranoid Soviet leaders, convinced of imminent attack, prepared to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike. Taylor Downing traces the background and events of the Able Archer 83 incident that almost saw a catastrophic eruption of dormant Cold War aggression Published: May 20, 2021 at 10:08 am The year 1983 was a supremely dangerou...

Nuclear Weapons in a Post-Christian World Nine countries possess about 15,000 nuclear weapons, reports the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. These weapons have become almost an afterthought as leaders of Russia and United States talk about modernizing nuclear arsenals - until crises emerge, such as the recent series of provocative tests from North Korea. The strategic analysis that goes into determining need for such weapons and national priorities may be missing a moral dimens...

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Newly declassified documents reveal that in November 1983, at the height of Cold War tensions, the United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than historians—and even many officials at the time—have known until now. The revelations aren’t mere details of history; they also hold relevant lessons for how leaders should think and act in ongoing crises in hot spots around the world today. The documents, released this week by the State Department historian’s office, focus ...

robert wallisGetty Images The good people at the National Security Archive can be relied upon to scare the eyebrows off us every several months or so. This week’s Thriller Chiller Feature involves how close the United States and the Soviet Union came to blowing the hell out of the planet one day in 1983. The episode came to a happy conclusion only because a U.S. general named Leonard Perroots trusted his gut at a crucial time. It all began with a NATO military exercise called Able Danger 83....

Newly released documents shed light on 1983 nuclear war scare with Soviets Nate Jones and David E. Hoffman, The Washington Post Feb. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union put fighter-bombers loaded with nuclear bombs on 24-hour alert in East Germany during a NATO nuclear weapons command exercise in November 1983, and the alert included "preparations for the immediate use of nuclear weapons," according to newly released U.S. intelligence records that confirm a "war scare" ...

Frontline Soviet aviation units were making preparations for the "immediate use of nuclear weapons," the documents revealed.