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Saturday Jan 16, 2021
EP44: 1983 Part 4 - The 1984 Addendum
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Could it have been that the most dangerous year of the Great War Scare wasn't 1983 with Able Archer, but 1984, when the danger receded into the mechanisms of the Soviet intelligence apparatus? Yes it could. For nearly a full year, the Soviet Union continued to operate on the assumption that the United States was going to launch a surprise attack. And the U.S. didn't seem to have a clue.
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The US had more than a clue that the Soviets were rightly scared of a surprise nuclear attack. They cultivated this.
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