DEFCON 83

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Autumn 1983, the Doomsday clock reads 3 minutes to midnight. American Pershing 2 missiles are arriving in Europe. Ronald Reagan has renewed open hostilities with the Soviet “Evil Empire”. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet air defences and rumours abound of an air skirmish over the sea of Japan.

Reading NATO Exercise Able Archer as a cover for a pre-emptive strike, the paranoid Soviet leadership mobilise forces in East Germany. The stage is set for a final confrontation. Soon the world will be at war for the third time in less than a century, and perhaps for the last time.



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