Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War - Couverture rigide

 
9781620972618: Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War
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ISBN 10 : 1620972611 ISBN 13 : 9781620972618
Editeur : The New Press, 2016

Synopsis

In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash telegrams reporting alarming activity on U.S. bases. In response, the Soviets began planning for a countdown to a nuclear first strike by NATO on Eastern Europe. And then Able Archer 83, a vast NATO war game exercise that modeled a Soviet attack on NATO allies, ended.

What the West didn't know at the time was that the Soviets thought Operation Able Archer 83 was real and were actively preparing for a surprise missile attack from NATO. This close scrape with Armageddon was largely unknown until last October when the U.S. government released a ninety-four-page presidential analysis of Able Archer that the National Security Archive had spent over a decade trying to declassify. Able Archer 83 is based upon more than a thousand pages of declassified documents that archive staffer Nate Jones has pried loose from several U.S. government agencies and British archives, as well as from formerly classified Soviet Politburo and KGB files, vividly recreating the atmosphere that nearly unleashed nuclear war.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nate Jones is the director of the Freedom of Information Act Project for the National Security Archive. He is also editor of the National Security Archive's blog, Unredacted. He lives in Washington, D.C. Thomas S. Blanton is the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Éditeur
The New Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1620972611
ISBN 13 
9781620972618
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
Jones Nate
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