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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 on a massive military training exercise known as Able Archer, in which NATO simulated the transition...

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 ...

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" during some of the most tense months of the Cold War. It was disclosed previously that the NATO exer...

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...