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The Six Minute War: Reagan, Russia, and the Race to Automate Armageddon by Michael Dobbs; Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $30
The enigma of the war scare of 1983 is that in the end, nothing happened.
NATO completed Autumn Forge 83, a series of massive war games culminating in November with a command-post exercise called Able Archer 83, and then everyone packed up and went home. To the extent Ronald Reagan was worried about nuclear war, it was thanks to having screened the made-for-TV movie The Da
The enigma of the war scare of 1983 is that in the end, nothing happened.
NATO completed Autumn Forge 83, a series of massive war games culminating in November with a command-post exercise called Able Archer 83, and then everyone packed up and went home. To the extent Ronald Reagan was worried about nuclear war, it was thanks to having screened the made-for-TV movie The Da
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