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WarGames for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII
- nabla9 6y agoDeutschland 83 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4445154/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4445154/ is a good fictional TV-series of this event (first season).
- poxwole 6y agoI was just going to suggest it myself!!!
- stefantalpalaru 6y ago"Psychological operations (PSYOP) by the United States began in mid-February 1981 and continued intermittently until 1983. These included a series of clandestine naval operations that stealthily accessed waters near the Greenland–Iceland–United Kingdom (GIUK) gap, and the Barents, Norwegian, Black, and Baltic seas, demonstrating how close NATO ships could get to critical Soviet military bases. American bombers also flew directly towards Soviet airspace, peeling off at the last moment, sometimes several times per week. These near-penetrations were designed to test Soviet radar vulnerability as well as demonstrate US capabilities in a nuclear war." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#Psychological_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#Psychological_o...