Could it have been that the most dangerous year of the Great War Scare wasn't 1983 with Able Archer, but 1984, when the danger receded into the mechanisms of the Soviet intelligence apparatus? Yes it could. For nearly a full year, the Soviet Union continued to operate on the assumption that the United States was going to launch a surprise attack. And the U.S. didn't seem to have a clue.
EP17: Cold War on Ice, Part Two: Camp Century
EP16: Cold War on Ice, Part One: Operation Bluejay
EP15: News, Missiles, and Radioactive Shrimp
EP14: Chernobyl and the Russian Woodpecker
EP13: The Otters of Amchitka, Part 3 - "Cannikin 71 and Don't Make a Wave"
EP12: The Otters of Amchitka, Part 2 - "Milrow 69 and Environmental Protest"
EP11: Fearmonger Fridays - "Terrorism vs. Apocalypse"
EP10: The Otters of Amchitka, Part 1
EP09: Fearmonger Fridays - "India and Pakistan and Kashmir, Oh My!"
EP08: The Story of the Net Evaluation Subcommittee, Part 4 - "McNamara's Wrath and a Window on War"
EP07: Fearmonger Fridays - "New Nukes for 2019"
EP06: The Story of the Net Evaluation Subcommittee, Part 3 - "John Kennedy and 11 Copies Destroyed"
EP05: Fearmonger Fridays - "Withdrawal from the INF"
EP04: The Story of the Net Evaluation Subcommittee, Part 2 - "Eisenhower's Crisis of Faith"
EP03: The Story of the Net Evaluation Subcommittee, Part 1
EP02: Last of the Cold War Kids
EP01: The View from Ground Zero
EP00: An Introduction to the Vault
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