Able Archer '83 - the Almost Nuclear Apocalypse

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

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4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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How all out nuclear war was nearly launched in 1983 and Ronald Reagan said 'Oh well, it's not the end of the world.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to the...
0:05.0	I've finally said, this is history.
0:07.5	That's my fault.
0:09.6	Tell them why, Angela.
0:11.1	Right.
0:12.4	Doing it now.
0:13.8	Hello and welcome to We Are History.
0:16.1	I'm Angela Barnes.
0:17.2	And I'm John O'Farrell, who called the podcast,
0:19.6	This Is History on my notes to Angela, which is why she's laughing at. And I cannot stop O'Farrell who called the podcast, This is History on my notes to Angela,
0:21.5	which is why she's laughing at it.
0:22.9	He did.
0:23.1	And I cannot stop laughing about it.
0:25.0	This is history.
0:25.7	I thought you'd done it as a joke.
0:26.9	No, I'm just old age.
0:28.7	I am history.
0:31.5	So, John, today we are talking about how the world nearly ended in 1983. Okay, this was news to me. Did you know before
0:40.5	I told you all about this? No. The world nearly ended twice actually in 1983, but we'll come on to that.
0:45.9	I had no idea. This is news to me. So you're going to be leading on this. I shall. About Abel Archer,
0:51.2	83. Abel Archer 83, which was a routine NATO exercise that took place from the 8th to the 11th of November, 1983.
1:00.5	And it is considered to be the closest we've come to nuclear war since the Cuban missile crisis of 62,
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