Able Archer declassified

dimensionallava · Oct 29, 2015

The 1983 US-Soviet "war scare" is one of the most controversial episodes of the Cold War.

Now we finally know it was also one of the most dangerous, thanks to a February 1990 report published by the National Security Archive at George Washington University this week after a 12-year Freedom of Information Act battle.

The US and Soviets were dangerously close to going to war in November 1983, the bombshell report found, and the Cold War-era US national-security apparatus missed many warning signs.

That 1983 "war scare" was spurred by a large-scale US military exercise in Eastern Europe called Able Archer that the Soviets apparently believed was part of allied preparation for a real war.

The Soviet military mobilized in response.

US-Soviet relations had definitely plunged in the early 1980s, but since then experts have debated how close the US and Soviets had come to the abyss during Able Archer.

Cold War US-Soviet War Scare - Business Insider

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/...sified-PFIAB-Report-Released/2012-0238-MR.pdf (report)

shrubnose · Oct 29, 2015

We didn't go to war.

Which tells me that this is yet another time-wasting thread which will accomplish nothing.

:lol:

Yahoo posts headlines like this constantly.

US Conservative · Oct 31, 2015

Reagan rules, commies drool.

Thoreau72 · Nov 1, 2015

I wonder if this is what NATO is trying to accomplish now, with the belligerent actions along Russia's borders?

DVSentinel · Nov 1, 2015

Damn, another golden opportunity to rid the world of millions of socialist wasted.

notquiteright · Nov 1, 2015

DVSentinel said:
Damn, another golden opportunity to rid the world of millions of socialist wasted.

And millions of capitalists- well along with millions who don't give a rat's rump either way...

Would have solved our undocumented immigrant problem, who wants to sneak into a land that glows in the dark????

eace

DVSentinel · Nov 1, 2015

notquiteright said:
And millions of capitalists- well along with millions who don't give a rat's rump either way...

Would have solved our undocumented immigrant problem, who wants to sneak into a land that glows in the dark???? eace

Not all of it would. And think how that nuclear winter would of ended all that global warming.

notquiteright · Nov 1, 2015

DVSentinel said:
Not all of it would. And think how that nuclear winter would of ended all that global warming.

LMAO, and so few capitalists to exploit the new lease on befouling the earth! :doh

Then again there might be continued undocumented immigrants after all- 'Merican survivors trying to make it to land that doesn't glow in the dark, though crossing the literal hot mess Texas would be is problematic...

eace