Able Archer 83 was a military exercise conducted by NATO that took place in November 1983. It simulated a period of heightened nuclear tensions between...

culmination of Exercise Autumn Forge. The exercise is best known for Able Archer 83, which began on November 7, 1983 and is believed to have nearly started...

chemical, nuclear, and conventional operations during a time of war. "Able Archer 83" was a five-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command post...

weapons. The codes were changed for Able Archer as there were new message formats and periods of radio silence. Able Archer 83 occurred just two months after...

Island. In November 1983, NATO conducted a military exercise known as "Able Archer 83". The realistic simulation of a nuclear attack by NATO forces caused...

for Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan by BBC Persian in October 2017. Able Archer 83 Cold War (1979–85) Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Main Directorate for...

RYAN continued to be maintained until at least April 1989. Able Archer 83 Deutschland 83 Warsaw Pact Early Warning Indicator Project President's Foreign...

the Soviet Union, when the Soviets misinterpreted the NATO exercise Able Archer 83 as a potential first strike, and identifying Mikhail Gorbachev as the...

war with the Soviet Union during the Able Archer 83 war scare. Perroots died on January 29, 2017, at the age of 83 following a short illness. Air Force...

leadership thinking, 'The Americans may attack, so we better attack first.'" Able Archer 83 – NATO military exercise that happened over a month after the Petrov...