US and Soviet Union Nearly Went Nuclear in 1983: Report
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. It was a perilous, hair-trigger time at the end of the Cold War in which the USSR was coming apart ...
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