1983: The Brink of Apocalypse

Today on Far Future Horizons we look at a crucial date in recent history when we came very close to an all out full scale Nuclear War during a NATO exercise known as Able Archer.

1983: The Year the World Almost Died

This extremely powerful documentary focuses on November 8, 1983 a date now recognized as one of the most dangerous moments in the entire history of the Cold War. On this near-fateful day, a series of accidents nearly unleashed the Third World War. Senior figures in the Soviet Union had convinced themselves that they were about to come under nuclear attack from the West, and the vast Soviet nuclear arsenal of missiles, bombers and submarines were put on maximum alert, ready to launch a full nuclear retaliatory attack on Western Europe and the US. Armageddon beckoned. This documentary tells the dramatic story behind this sequence of events when Soviet fingers hovered perilously over the nuclear button. The intelligence communities in the US, Europe and the former USSR have never before admitted to the scale of this crisis.

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