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Galileo126

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2. It was called "Operation Able Archer"

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2013, 03:27 PM

Nov 2013

...just to clarify.

There was a pretty good documentary on the Military Channel a while back regarding this, and the series of misinterpretations on both sides almost ended up in mushroom clouds.

Pretty. Damned. Scary.

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How a war game brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster [View all] Eugene Nov 2013 OP

November 1983: wonder whose watch this was this on, not that playing major war games so indepat Nov 2013 #1

It was called "Operation Able Archer" Galileo126 Nov 2013 #2

never let a Bircher take charge MisterP Nov 2013 #3

Fucking idiots, all of them. bemildred Nov 2013 #4