1983: How a War Game Brought the World to the Brink of Nuclear Disaster
November 2nd, 2013Via: Guardian:
Chilling new evidence that Britain and America came close to provoking the Soviet Union into launching a nuclear attack has emerged in former classified documents written at the height of the cold war.
Cabinet memos and briefing papers released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that a major war games exercise, Operation Able Art, conducted in November 1983 by the US and its Nato allies was so realistic it made the Russians believe that a nuclear strike on its territory was a real possibility.
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Fun coincidence: 1983 was the year “War Games” (the movie) came out.