[GOP_Lady]

PING for later reading.

[kjam22]

“how about a nice game of chess?”

[Arrowhead1952]

Thanks. Great read. Just imagine what the world will be like if “My Mood, I’m in a jihad” ever gets his hands on nukes.

[ditto h]

Thank you. Great read.

[xc1427]

Thanks for posting the article and God only knows how many close calls existed during the Cold War.

[Adder]

O M G

[rellimpank]

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[G Larry]

Actually, the 1973 Yom Kippur war is the closest we’ve ever come to nuclear war.

As the Soviets prepared to back Egypt, the U.S. was standing strong behind Israel, and both sides were actively preparing for a nuclear exchange.

[kalee]

ping

[aruanan]

The former Hollywood cowboy was more affected by this than by any military briefings he might have had.

A review of Reagan's filmography at IMDB shows that much more often than not, Reagan was not a Hollywood cowboy.

[pyx]

Reagan and his advisers were shocked, and more impetus was put behind finding ways to end the arms race with the Soviet Union.

The MSM's continued portrayal of Reagan as feckless and weak or as a reckless 'cowboy' in view of their continual fawning and bootlicking of their much missed Soviet empire still gives me the dry heaves.

Standing tall and demanding publically at Brandenberg Gate on June 12, 1987, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !", takes a real man with cast iron cajonies.

The reason the MSM has earned and is the dinosaur media is because its continued attempts at revisionism, lies and manipulations of public opinion. The LEFT will always attempt to cling to power or if the LEFT is losing its grip, the LEFT will attempt to SILENCE its critics.

The "New Media" and the Internet are where people now go for their news and information. The LEFT will attempt to control and SILENCE those that dissent in the "New Media" and on the Internet because the LEFT cannot compete and win in the arena of ideas.

[Vor Lady]

Ping for later read.

[BenLurkin]

The near-miss of 1983 has long been known by historians of the Cold War. But this documentary will bring it to a wider audience.

Interesting timing for this pro-Soviet presentation .

[Vision Thing]

Those events, 24 years ago, are also a reminder that, for all the concerns about global warning, mankind's greatest danger may still be its vast nuclear arsenals.

It has largely gone unnoticed that this year, with increasing fears of proliferation, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock up to five minutes to midnight, closer to nuclear catastrophe than at almost any time since the phoney war of 1983.

What this panty-waist of an article author dares not mention is that the real nuclear threat is neither Russia nor the Americans, but the nuclear proliferation within the realm of Islamofascism.

[Running On Empty]

Thanks for this article.

Does anyone on FR remember the incident of the “Lebanon caves” in 1982?

There was talk at that time of Russian subs off the coast of Lebanon, with the intent of setting things up for an incursion into the Middle-east. IIRC, they were discovered by the Israelis and the planned operation was aborted. There were those at that time who claimed that the story was spiked here in the US.

I can’t say for certain re: the veracity of the claims.

[Fresh Wind]

He and his men watched and listened on headphones for any sign of movement - anything unusual that might suggest the U.S. was launching a nuclear attack.

It's much easier simply to read the New York Times. They can be counted on to announce any US military plans well before the event.

[Defiant]

This writer’s pro-Soviet inclinations are sprinkled throughout this piece. It is crap, with snippets of interesting information. It seems to me, between Charlie’s War and a host of re-examinations of the victory in the cold war that have been in print lately, that the CIA and State Dept. losers who have been undermining Bush’s presidency are trying to rewrite the Cold War so that they can get their way in the war on terror and take the gloss off of the Republican record of protecting this nation.

[Joya]

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[petitfour]

In the Soviet Union, the military went on to their equivalent of the U.S. defence forces' DefCon 1, the final warning of an imminent attack and the last stage before pressing the button for an all to real massive retaliation.

Isn't DefCon 5 the designation for the final warning of an imminent attack? And DefCon 1 is the lowest level?

[dead]

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