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1914-1984; Cold War; International relations; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Nuclear missiles; Nuclear warfare;Nuclear weapons; Reagan
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1983: The Most Dangerous Year, Andrew R. Garland
1983: The Most Dangerous Year, Andrew R. Garland
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A series of otherwise unrelated events culminated to make 1983 the most dangerous year the world has ever known, with the United States and the Soviet Union even closer to war than during the much more well-known events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis of 1983 arose from a sequence of accidents, misunderstandings, and mistakes. From highly publicized events such as President Ronald Reagan‘s application of morality to foreign policy to the Soviet Union‘s attempt to discover NATO‘s secret attack plans, an extraordinary confluence of events brought the two superpowers closer to nuclear exchange than is commonly believed. …