Able Archer Almost Started A Nuclear War With Russia In 1983
Source: slate.com
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<p>One of the Cold War’s great mysteries is how the world survived the second week of November 1983.</p> <p>That it did is in large part thanks to the actions—or, more accurately, the inaction—of an Air Force officer named Leonard Perroots, who died this January. That it almost did not was a functio