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Why The Key Able Archer 83 Report Should Be Released Under UK FOIA
Guardian: Security chiefs may block release of UK report on 1983 Soviet nuclear scare.
The 1983 War Scare Part One: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War
The 1983 War Scare Part Two: Able Archer 83 Declassified
The 1983 War Scare Part Three: "A rather stunning array of Indicators"
Countdown to Declassification: Finding Answers to the Able Archer 83 Nuclear War Scare
By Nate Jones, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November, 2013
Forecasting Nuclear War: Stasi/KGB Intelligence Cooperation under Project RYaN
By Bernd Schaefer, Nate Jones, Benjamin B. Fischer, Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, Wilson Center, November, 2014
Air Force Intelligence Service Redacts Its Role During Able Archer 83
President Reagan Meets Oleg Gordievsky, Soviet Double Agent Who Reported Danger of Able Archer 83
British Documents Confirm UK Alerted US to Danger of Able Archer 83
Former Australian Deputy Secretary of Defence on Able Archer 83
New Evidence on Autumn Forge 83 from the Netherlands
War Scare Thirtieth Anniversary
War Scare
By Nate Jones, ForeignPolicy.com, May 21, 2013
Nate Jones and Robert Farley Discuss Able Archer 83 Blogging Heads "Foreign Entanglements," May 31, 2013