The U.S. and Russia are both running their annual nuclear war exercises right now
Let's talk about the time one of these test runs almost led to catastrophe.
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Let's talk about the time one of these test runs almost led to catastrophe.
<p>The State Department's official history of US-Soviet relations includes a military intelligence officer's recollection of a 1983 exercise that nearly triggered nuclear war. Why has the government pulled that official history and restricted the original memo? </p>
Fearful that the Able Archer 83 exercise was a cover for a NATO nuclear strike, the U.S.S.R. readied its own weapons for launch
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was an agreement signed by the former USSR and the United States on December 8, 1987. Signed by Mikhail Gorba
The Soviet Union armed 100 aircraft with nuclear bombs and put them on a 30-minute alert status as Cold War tensions threatened to boil over in the early 1980s, declassified US intelligence files