U.S.S.R. and U.S. Came Closer to Nuclear War Than We Thought

[rothe]

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/the-ussr-and-us-came-closer-to-nuclear-war-than-we-thought/276290/

For two years, KGB agents had been scouring the world for evidence of what the Soviet leadership believed were U.S. preparations for all-out nuclear war against the U.S.S.R.

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB427/

The Western maneuvers that autumn, called Autumn Forge, were depicted by the Pentagon as simply a large military exercise. But its scope was hardly routine, as Americans learned in detail this week, for the first time, from declassified documents published by the National Security Archive, a Washington-based nonprofit research organization.

To the Russians, it could easily have looked like a genuine preparation for a nuclear strike, the documents revealed: A total of 40,000 U.S. and NATO troops were moved across Western Europe, including 16,044 U.S. troops airlifted overseas in 170 missions conducted in radio silence.

[Jerome Scuggs]

i have a physical subscription to the atlantic, i love this mag.

but, i thought you were talking about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

"On September 26, 1983, just three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm,[2] and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned.[3]"

This was a big deal cuz yeah, it was during '83, right after the Able Archer war exercises.

also they rolled up the 4 thunderbolt episodes into a movie (OVA? idk my anime lingo), its called "december sky" and its fucking awesome. edit: nevermind it looks like ur avatar is daryl lorenz so i guess youve probly seen it!!!!