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Originally Posted by Mutt
Reading the Wikipedia article there seems to be different opinions on how close to launching a pre-emptive strike the Soviets were. And the lesson of this affair is that it's likely that nukes will be launched one day because of paranoia or misunderstanding, the ultimate 'DOH!'.
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yeah...its hard to know the truth since so many facts are classified about the circumstances. its just the story of the cold war has an ending as exciting as the beginning, with star wars, the end of the soviet union & the looting of its military (& our efforts to secure possible loose nukes) but the movie barely touched on these areas.
The great irony is the movie wargames came out the same year as able archer. the parallels between the movie & real events is kinda scary.