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1983 - The World at the Brink (Paperback)
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1983 - The World at the Brink (Paperback)
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'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up
to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part
of the jigsaw. Indeed, his narrative is so persuasive that by the
time you are about two- thirds through, it takes some effort to
remind yourself that the Third World War never happened' Dominic
Sandbrook, Sunday Times 1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even
more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In
the US, President Reagan massively increased defence spending,
described the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire' and announced his
'Star Wars' programme, calling for a shield in space to defend the
US from incoming missiles. Yuri Andropov, the paranoid Soviet
leader, saw all this as signs of American aggression and convinced
himself that the US really meant to attack the Soviet Union. He put
the KGB on alert to look for signs of an imminent nuclear attack.
When a Soviet fighter jet shot down Korean Air Lines flight KAL 007
after straying off course over a sensitive Soviet military area,
President Reagan described it as a 'terrorist act' and 'a crime
against humanity'. The temperature was rising fast. Then at the
height of the tension, NATO began a war game called Able Archer 83.
In this exercise, NATO requested permission to use the codes to
launch nuclear weapons. The nervous Soviets convinced themselves
this was no exercise but the real thing. This is an extraordinary
and largely unknown Cold War story of spies and double agents, of
missiles being readied, of intelligence failures, misunderstandings
and the panic of world leaders. With access to hundreds of
extraordinary new documents just released in the US, Taylor Downing
is able to tell for the first time the gripping but true story of
how near the world came to the brink of nuclear war in 1983. 1983:
THE WORLD AT THE BRINK is a real-life thriller.
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