In 1983, a classified NATO exercise led the Soviet Union to fear a nuclear attack was imminent. The Able Archer '83 exercises, designed to train U.S. and NATO forces to manage nuclear escalation in a ...

A recently declassified report written in 1990 concludes President Ronald Reagan’s administration misjudged Soviet fears of a U.S. nuclear attack in 1983. HANDOUT Reagan Presidential Library A nuclear ...

THE year was 1983. Cold War sabre-rattling was at its peak. Now freshly declassified documents show how a war game in Europe brought us frighteningly close to nuclear armageddon. The war of words ...

It was an intelligence failure of a scope to vastly exceed all others, when one nuclear superpower perceived the other moving to a nuclear first strike and prepared for war, while the other missed all ...

A freshly declassified report confirms that the U.S. intelligence community, in 1983 and 1984, gave insufficient weight to evidence that the leaders of the Soviet Union genuinely feared a surprise ...

An ailing, 69-year-old Yuri Andropov was running the Soviet Union from his Moscow hospital bed in 1983 as the United States and its NATO allies conducted a massive series of war games that seemed to ...

NATO war games in 1983 inadvertently put the world on the brink of nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, and US officials underestimated the seriousness of the situation, according to a newly ...

Forty Years Ago World War III Almost Started Due to a Training Exercise – Four decades ago this past November, World War III almost started – at least it did according to some claims. Yet, it wasn’t ...