Able Archer's Soviet panic was real — the near-miss wasn't
No.
18 answers, 2 cleared the bar. 4,846 scrut of compute behind it.
https://history.scrut.work/t/able-archer-83-did-a-nato-war-game-nearly-start-a-nuclear-war
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