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

Newly released US intelligence files show how close the Soviet Union came to launching a nuclear attack during a NATO weapons exercise in 1983. The Communist bloc put fighter bombers strapped with nuclear bombs on high alert in East Germany during a 'war scare' prompted by a NATO exercise in Western Europe called Able Archer in November 1983. Soviet leader Yuri Andropov made 'preparations for the immediate use of nuclear weapons' and forces were on 30-minute standby to destroy enemy targets in what was one of the tensest moments of the Cold War. It was previously known that Able Archer 83 ca...

The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981-1988, Volume IV, Soviet Union, January 1983-March 1985. This volume...

George Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100 Michael Abramowitz and David E. Hoffman, The Washington Post Feb. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Edward Miller, right, is sworn in as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board by Justice Byron White as Secretary of Labor George Shultz and his wife, Anne Harmon Miller, look on in June 1970.Washington Post photo by Harry Naltchayan On Sunday, Oct. 12, 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had reached a climactic moment in their summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Gorbachev proposed swe...

Military exercise, called able archer, a strategic nuclear strike on moscow could be launched. >> when reagan discovered that the soviets actually did think that the united states might launch a preemptive strike, it was kind of one of these moments. my gosh. i'm going to look upon them in a different light. >> an estimated 100 million americans watched last night as some of the horror of a nuclear bomb attack on the united states was portrayed in a tv movie. >> reagan processed a lot of history through movies, and the fact that this fear of nuclear annihilation was very real, he started feeli...