Newly-Declassified US Documents Reveal How Close The Soviet Union Came To Launching A Nuclear Attack During A NATO Weapons Exercise In 1983

Photo credit Photo by Staff Sgt. Brittany Murphy  Daily Mail: Thirty minutes from nuclear war: Newly-declassified US documents reveal how paranoid Russians loaded nukes onto fighters in East Germany in 1983 over fears NATO exercise was invasion   * NATO forces carried out Able Archer exercise to simulate a nuclear attack   * But Soviet leaders feared the exercise was cover for a genuine offensive   * They readied fighter bombers with 'warloads' and were on 30-minute alert  Newly released US intelligence files show how close the Soviet Union came to launching a nuclear attack during a NATO weapons exercise in 1983.  The Communist bloc put fighter bombers strapped with nuclear bombs on high alert in East Germany during a 'war scare' prompted by a NATO exercise in Western Europe called Able Archer in November 1983.  Soviet leader Yuri Andropov made 'preparations for the immediate use of nuclear weapons' and forces were on 30-minute standby to destroy enemy targets in what was one of the tensest moments of the Cold War.  Read more ....  WNU Editor: The declassified documents are here .... Able Archer War Scare “Potentially Disastrous” (National Security Archive).   More News On Newly-Declassified US Documents Revealing How Close The Soviet Union Came To Launching A Nuclear Attack During A NATO Weapons Exercise In 1983  New Docs Show 1983 NATO Exercise Led To The Soviets Arming 100 Jets For Nuclear War -- Warzone/The Drive  Newly released documents shed light on 1983 nuclear war scare with Soviets -- Washington Post  Soviet Union was ready to scramble 100 nuclear bombers in 1983, files reveal -- The Times  New documents show world on the brink of nuclear war in 1983 -- KSU  Newly declassified documents reveal the training exercise that nearly triggered World War III -- KNOX Apocalypse Averted -- Slate  Operation Plumbob Stokes US nuclear weapons test, predicted yield 10-20 kt, August 7, 1957.‘On a  Hair Trigger’: Soviets Armed 108 Jets for Nuclear War During 1983 NATO Drills, Docs Show -- Sputnik

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