Man I loved the 80s.

Arcade games, fanny packs, acid-wash jeans,

Jane Fonda doing jazzersize, I mean what's not to like?

Smiling and feeling so fine. to like. Oh yeah the looming threat of nuclear war. The temperature of a

nuclear ball is 20 million degrees.

Ooh boy.

Situation.

Situation all that all fucked up.

Yep, the 1980s weren't all Robotron and Rubik's Cubes.

There was also that out-of-control nuclear arms race

between the United States and the Soviet Union.

And a lot of people spent the 80s deeply,

existentially terrified of nuclear war including me. But what most people

don't know is in November of 1983 the United States and the Soviet Union almost started an actual nuclear war,

entirely by accident.

And none of us knew anything about it.

Which makes me think of a story.

I'm Ed Helms and I'm hosting a new podcast called Snafu.

It's a show about GAFs, the disasters, history's greatest

screw-ups. On season one of Snafu, the story of Ava Archer 83, the NATO military exercise that nearly triggered

World War III. You know this is more like two drunks in a bar circling one

another and it's not so much that anybody would deliberately choose to start the war

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