Nate Jones is the director of the Freedom of Information Act Project for the National Security Archive. He is also editor of the National Security Archive's blog, Unredacted. He lives in Washington, D.C. Thomas S. Blanton is the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Praise for Able Archer 83:
"Twenty-one years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, a NATO exercise,
Able Archer 83, came terrifyingly close to precipitating an
accidental nuclear war. Nate Jones's brilliantly researched and
gripping history of government miscalculations and misjudgments on
both sides of the iron curtain during this war game, poses the 21st
century's most serious existential question: How many nuclear
bullets can humanity dodge? Read it and reckon! I don't think you
will like the answer."
—Martin J. Sherwin, University Professor of History at George Mason
University and author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its
Legacies
"Able Archer 83 is an invaluable resource on one of the most
dangerous moments of the Cold War. The book contains an unmatched
collection of previously secret documents about the War Scare of
1983 and the Able Archer exercise at the center of it. If you want
to learn from history, this is the place to start."
—David E. Hoffman, author of The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the
Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
"Able Archer 83 brings us back to a moment when we all came close
to becoming cinders or radioactive corpses. It's an important
contribution to our understanding of how the Cold War played out,
and how erroneous assumptions routinely become institutionalized
policy, which then becomes almost irresistible."
—Glenn L. Carle, a former CIA officer and author of The
Interrogator
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