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How the U.S. military lost a $250 million war game in minutes
The Washington Post
Oct 30, 2024
The U.S. and Russia Are Both Running Their Annual Nuclear-War Exercises Right Now. Awkward Timing!
Slate
Oct 24, 2022
An official U.S. history revealed a Cold War nuclear scare. Now back to the vault.
The Washington Post
Oct 16, 2022
Alert showed 5 US nukes inbound. How one man in USSR may have saved the world in 1983
Miami Herald
Sep 26, 2022
The 1983 Military Drill That Nearly Sparked Nuclear War With the Soviets
Smithsonian Magazine
Apr 27, 2022
Able Archer: The NATO exercise that almost went nuclear
Live Science
Apr 13, 2022
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
Daily Mail
Feb 18, 2021
Apocalypse Averted
Slate
Feb 18, 2021
One Day in 1983 We Nearly Blew the Hell Out of the Planet
Esquire
Feb 18, 2021
A NATO war game had the Soviet Union readying for nuclear war in a terrifying Cold War close call, new documents show
Insider
Feb 18, 2021
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