Able Archer 83 : the secret history of the NATO exercise that almost triggered nuclear war / edited by Nate Jones ; with a foreword by Tom Blanton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Nate, author, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--History--20th century.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Defenses.

History.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy.

History, Military.

Nuclear crisis control.

Military maneuvers.

Europe--History, Military--20th century.

Europe.

Military maneuvers--Europe--History--20th century.

Nuclear crisis control--History--20th century.

United States--History, Military--20th century--Sources.

United States.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.

Nuclear weapons.

Europe, Western--Defenses--History--20th century.

Europe, Western.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States--Sources.

Soviet Union.

International relations.

Western Europe.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union--Sources.

Cold War--Sources.

Cold War.

Diplomatic relations.

History--Sources.

Military readiness.

Genre:

Sources.

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

xii, 338 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Secret history of the NATO exercise that almost triggered nuclear war

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press, [2016]

Contents:

Part I "Standing Tail," the "Mirror-Image," and Operation RYaN 5

Part II "Thoroughly White Hot," Able Archer 83, and the Crux of the War Scare 25

Part III Aftermath, "One Misstep Could Trigger a Great War" 39

Conclusion: "Way Is the World So Dangerous?" 54

Acknowledgments and Notes on Sources 61

Document 1 President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Report, "The Soviet 'War Scare,'" February 15, 1990, Top Secret, Umbra Gamma Wnintel Noforn Nocontract Orcon 67

Document 2 CIA Studies in Intelligence Article by Benjamin Fischer, "The 1983 War Scare in U.S.-Soviet Relations," Undated (Circa 1996), Secret 179

Document 3 KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov to General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, "Report on the Work of the KGB in 1981," May 10, 1982 195

Document 4 Central Intelligence Agency Biographical Profile of Yuriy Vladimirovich Andropov, January 11, 1983, Classification Redacted 199

Document 5 Memorandum of Conversation Between General Secretary Yuri Andropov and Averell Harriman, CPSU Central Committee Headquarters, Moscow, 3:00 p.m. June 2, 1983 203

Document 6 U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command Daily INTSUM, November 10, 1983, Secret 219

Document 7 Air "Force Seventh Air Division, Ramstein Air Base, "Exercise Able Archer 83, SAC ADVON, After Action Report," December 1, 1983, Secret NOFORN 221

Document 8 Memorandum for National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane from Soviet Expert Jack Matlock, "Subject: American Academic on Soviet Policy," December 13, 1983, Confidential with Attached EXDIS Cable from the American Embassy in Moscow 241

Document 9 UK Ministry of Defence, "Soviet Union Concern About a Surprise Nuclear Attack," May 9, 1983 251

Document 10 Central Intelligence Agency, Special National Intelligence Estimate, "Implications of Recent Soviet Military-Political Activities," May 18, 1984, Top Secret 259

Document 11 Central Intelligence Agency Memorandum for the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from CIA Director William Casey, "U.S./Soviet Tension," June 19, 1984, Secret 273

Document 12 Small Group Meeting of November 19, 1983, 7:30 a.m., The Secretary's Dining Room, Department of State, Secret/Sensitive 283

Document 13 Reagan's Handwritten Addition of Ivan and Anya to His January 16, 1984, Speech on United States-Soviet Relations 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jones, Nate, author. Able Archer 83

ISBN:

9781620972618

1620972611

OCLC:

953525291