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Subject: American Academic on Soviet PolicyThe Andropov speech, Politburo-level warnings about the war risks from NATO exercises in the fall of 1983, and other previously secret Soviet documents and declassified U.S. sources included in today’s posting, confirm that ranking members of Soviet intelligence, military, and the Politburo, to varying degrees, were fearful of a Western first strike in 1983 under the cover of the NATO exercises Autumn Forge 83 and Able Archer 83.While there is no evidence of an “imminent” Soviet launch of nuclear weapons in response to Able Archer 83, there is ample documentation that the East-West military-political confrontation and introduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons by both superpowers into Europe decreased stability and increased the risk of war through miscalculation during the War Scare.Politburo Member Warned that NATO Exercise Could Have Masked a First StrikeThe 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part IIIThe Window of Vulnerability That Wasn’t: Soviet Military Buildup in the 1970s—A Research NoteThe 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part IThe 1983 War Scare, including the Soviet proclamations about fear of war, military reactions to NATO exercises, and introduction of a KGB program named “Hawaii alert was a false alarm, but danger is realBy Nate Jones with a foreword by Tom BlantonThe evidence published in this posting includes:The 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part IIStasi Note on Meeting with KGB Experts on the RYaN ProblemStanding on the Brink: The Secret War Scare of 1983Limited Strikes on North Korea Would Be an Unlimited DisasterThe 1983 War Scare Declassified and For RealFOIA Advisory Committee Oversight ReportsToday’s posting addresses a key historiographical problem faced by researchers working on the 1983 war scare, namely the paucity of primary source evidence from the Soviet side beyond the material provided by KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky. This day is now acknowledged as one of most perilous on the whole of the Cold War. If you experience a barrier that affects your ability to access content on this page, let us know via ourSoviet Documents Include 1981 KGB Orders and 1984 Military Analysis of Able Archer 83 Even so, the scare took on a life of its own and threatened to get out of hand before the … (as Col. John Hughes-Wilson)FILM LIFE: War and Revolution | Chapter 15On November 8th 1983 World War III almost began, and with it a nuclear apocalypse. "The 1983 War Scare in US-Soviet Relations" concludes that Soviet fears … These missile attack warnings were felt to be false alarms by Stanislav Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. Investigation of th… Use the HTML below.1 of 1 people found this review helpful. In a May 1981 closed-session meeting of senior KGB officers and Soviet leaders, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and KGB chairman Yuri Andropov bluntly announced that the United States was preparing a secret nuclear attack on the USSR. The information is easy to understand and although quite scary, it is presented in a sophisticated and entertaining way.
"The 1983 War Scare in US-Soviet Relations," by Ben B. Fischer, a History Fellow at the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence, was authored for the CIA's classified in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence — likely prior to the presentation of his longer, unclassified, "A Cold War Conundrum," although its date is redacted. On November 8th 1983 World War III almost began, and with it a nuclear apocalypse.
A recently declassified top-secret government document has revealed the USSR was bracing itself for nuclear war with the US in 1983 and relations … In 1983 a series of events and misunderstandings raised the tension in the cold war to the point where it almost became a hot war. The quality of the information is very high; both Robert Gates and Oleg Gordievsky are interviewed.
Subject: American Academic on Soviet PolicyThe Andropov speech, Politburo-level warnings about the war risks from NATO exercises in the fall of 1983, and other previously secret Soviet documents and declassified U.S. sources included in today’s posting, confirm that ranking members of Soviet intelligence, military, and the Politburo, to varying degrees, were fearful of a Western first strike in 1983 under the cover of the NATO exercises Autumn Forge 83 and Able Archer 83.While there is no evidence of an “imminent” Soviet launch of nuclear weapons in response to Able Archer 83, there is ample documentation that the East-West military-political confrontation and introduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons by both superpowers into Europe decreased stability and increased the risk of war through miscalculation during the War Scare.Politburo Member Warned that NATO Exercise Could Have Masked a First StrikeThe 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part IIIThe Window of Vulnerability That Wasn’t: Soviet Military Buildup in the 1970s—A Research NoteThe 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part IThe 1983 War Scare, including the Soviet proclamations about fear of war, military reactions to NATO exercises, and introduction of a KGB program named “Hawaii alert was a false alarm, but danger is realBy Nate Jones with a foreword by Tom BlantonThe evidence published in this posting includes:The 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part IIStasi Note on Meeting with KGB Experts on the RYaN ProblemStanding on the Brink: The Secret War Scare of 1983Limited Strikes on North Korea Would Be an Unlimited DisasterThe 1983 War Scare Declassified and For RealFOIA Advisory Committee Oversight ReportsToday’s posting addresses a key historiographical problem faced by researchers working on the 1983 war scare, namely the paucity of primary source evidence from the Soviet side beyond the material provided by KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky. This day is now acknowledged as one of most perilous on the whole of the Cold War. If you experience a barrier that affects your ability to access content on this page, let us know via ourSoviet Documents Include 1981 KGB Orders and 1984 Military Analysis of Able Archer 83 Even so, the scare took on a life of its own and threatened to get out of hand before the … (as Col. John Hughes-Wilson)FILM LIFE: War and Revolution | Chapter 15On November 8th 1983 World War III almost began, and with it a nuclear apocalypse. "The 1983 War Scare in US-Soviet Relations" concludes that Soviet fears … These missile attack warnings were felt to be false alarms by Stanislav Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. Investigation of th… Use the HTML below.1 of 1 people found this review helpful. In a May 1981 closed-session meeting of senior KGB officers and Soviet leaders, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and KGB chairman Yuri Andropov bluntly announced that the United States was preparing a secret nuclear attack on the USSR. The information is easy to understand and although quite scary, it is presented in a sophisticated and entertaining way.
"The 1983 War Scare in US-Soviet Relations," by Ben B. Fischer, a History Fellow at the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence, was authored for the CIA's classified in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence — likely prior to the presentation of his longer, unclassified, "A Cold War Conundrum," although its date is redacted. On November 8th 1983 World War III almost began, and with it a nuclear apocalypse.
A recently declassified top-secret government document has revealed the USSR was bracing itself for nuclear war with the US in 1983 and relations … In 1983 a series of events and misunderstandings raised the tension in the cold war to the point where it almost became a hot war. The quality of the information is very high; both Robert Gates and Oleg Gordievsky are interviewed.