Declassified US documents reveal how Soviets readied nuclear attack during 1983 NATO exercise

The Communist bloc put fighter bombers strapped with nuclear bombs on high alert in East Germany during a 'war scare' prompted by NATO's Able Archer command exercise in November 1983. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9274205/Declassified-documents-reveal-Soviets-readied-nuclear-attack-1983-NATO-exercise.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490