Able Archer

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/16/2022
  

  A Decision to Declare an Already-Public History Secret is Bad for the Public

  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? 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  3/16/2021
  

  The Mythical War Scare of 1983

  by Simon Miles

  "Nuclear weapons are not without danger, to be sure. An overinflation of the risk of Able Archer should not be necessary to remind policymakers of that point."

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  2/28/19
  

  National Security Archive Sues Defense Information Agency for Able Archer 83 Document

  by Nate Jones

  The Archive filed suit after receiving no substantive response to the FOIA request for six months. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11-18-13
  

  Washington Today Could Use a Dose of Reagan’s Pragmatism

  Reagan learned a lesson from the Able Archer 83 war scare.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11-2-13
  

  How a NATO war game took the world to brink of nuclear disaster

  The military exercise Able Archer nearly provoked a pre-emptive Soviet strike.