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Let's talk about the unthinkable in Able Archer 1983....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

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Well, howdy there, Internet people people let's bow again so today we're going to talk

0:26.8

about one of the many close calls we've had with the unthinkable.

0:35.0

In a few videos, I've said that normally when we're actually close to the unthinkable

0:40.0

happening, the public doesn't know. And on the live stream recently somebody asked and was

0:47.1

like, hey, can you tell us one of those stories? And yes, yes we can. We'll talk about one. There there's a few I may do another one later

0:56.7

but this is one of the more interesting ones and one that's kind of easy to research if you want to learn a little bit more about it.

1:07.0

It happened in 1983 and NATO had just finished a large-scale conventional exercise.

1:16.8

I want to say that one was called Autumn Forge.

1:21.4

And they followed it up with an exercise called Abel Archer.

1:25.0

And Abel Archer was a role-playing thing.

1:30.0

They were training to Soviet invasion of Western Europe. They wanted it to be real, so they used encrypted communications.

1:46.6

They involved heads of state in this training exercise.

1:51.0

Bases around the world would respond to the orders of the people playing the war game.

1:58.0

So planes would get loaded and stuff like that.

2:01.0

The original scenario was that I want to say

2:06.0

Soviet tanks rolled across Yugoslavia

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