Category: MA Intelligence & Security Studies
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Gordievsky’s role in the Able Archer 1983 ‘War Scare’: Some Synthetic Evidence.

In November 1983 NATO held a command post exercise which rehearsed new procedures for a nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union by NATO, which was held following a very tense year in US-Soviet relations and used a new cryptographic system. The 1988 publication of The Storm Birds, wherein Gordon…
