#ColdWar

A Pershing missile being made ready for testing at White Sands Missile Range, January 1986

Declassified document casts a new light on Soviet war scare in 1983

November 24, 2015Conflict

A newly declassified document suggests the US totally misjudged a war scare in 1983-84. It seems the Soviet Union really expected the US to launch a first strike, and consequently prepared its own pre-emptive strike. Nuclear Armageddon was set on a hair trigger.