The Exercise That Almost Started a War

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The Exercise That Almost Started a War

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In November 1983, for five days, the world came closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis — and almost nobody in the West knew it. There was no crisis and no ultimatum. There was only a NATO exercise, which Moscow read as the cover for a real nuclear first strike. This is the documented story of Able Archer 83, Operation RYaN, and the misunderstanding that nearly ended the world.

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