Would not be the first time that Soviet leaders have used international tensions to mobilize their populations," wrote the acting CIA director John McMahon Pans" in an attempt to gain geopolitical advantages, including stopping the deployment of Pershing II and Cruise nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Suggest that not all Soviet political and military leaders were fearful of a US preemptive first strike, but may rather have been "rattling their pots and But other documents included in this posting Scare" reached its crux during the NATO nuclear release exercise named Able Archer 83, according to Harriman's notes of the conversation posted for theįirst time today by the National Security Archive ( The meeting provides important, first-hand evidence of Soviet leadership concerns about a possible US threat. Andropov delivered this warning six months before the 1983 "War Toward "the dangerous 'red line'" of nuclear war through "miscalculation" in June of 1983. Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov warned US envoy Averell Harriman that the Reagan administration's provocations were moving the two superpowers Thirtieth Anniversary of NATO's Dual-Track Decision Launch on Warning: The Development of U.S. Nate Jones and Robert Farley Discuss Able Archer 83īlogging Heads "Foreign Entanglements," May 31, 2013 The USSR and US Came Closer to Nuclear War Than We Thoughtīy Douglas Birch, The Atlantic, May 28, 2013īy Nate Jones,, May 21, 2013 New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis View the updated Able Archer 83 Sourcebook Page for the latest documents and analysis on Able Archer 83.
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