la hecatombe nuclear que pudo acaecer en 1983
1983: The Brink Of Apocalypsehttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1630001170436508560la URSS estuvo a punto de lanzar misiles nucleares pensando que unos ejercicios de la OTAN eran en realidad un ataque contra su territorio
"8 November 1983, a date now recognised as one of the most dangerous moments in the entire history of the Cold War.
President Reagan began a huge military build-up,in March of that year he openly called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and a few weeks later he launched his Star Wars initiative. At the end of August, relations between East and West deteriorated even further when the Soviets shot down a civilian Korean airliner, flight KAL007.
To make matters worse, in November Nato began an exercise called Able Archer. This regular military war game rehearsed the process of how to launch nuclear weapons. For the Soviets, who always believed an attack from the West would come in the guise of a military exercise, this was the last straw. They convinced themselves this was not a military exercise but was the real thing. Fingers hovered over the nuclear button as the Soviets believed America was about to launch its missiles against them.
Among those interviewed in this documentary are Robert Gates, deputy head of the CIA in 1983 and now Secretary of Defense in the Bush administration; Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB; Oleg Gordievsky a senior KGB officer but a double agent also working for British intelligence; an East German spy with the code name Topaz who had penetrated the most senior levels of Nato."
Publicado: Sab Sep 22, 2007 9:57 am
