Able Archer 83: the secret history of the NATO exercise that almost triggered nuclear war

Machine generated contents note: pt. I "Standing Tall" the "Mirror-Image" and Operation RYaN

pt. II "Thoroughly White Hot" Able Archer 83, and the Crux of the War Scare

pt. III Aftermath, "One Misstep Could Trigger a Great War"

Conclusion: "Why Is the World So Dangerous?"

Acknowledgments and Notes on Sources

doc. 1 President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Report, "The Soviet ̀War Scare'" February 15, 1990, Top Secret, UMBRA GAMMA WNINTEL NOFORN NOCONTRACT ORCON

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

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

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

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

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

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

doc. 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

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

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

doc. 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

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

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