1983

Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink

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By Taylor Downing

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A riveting, thrilling account of 1983–the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon

1983 was a dangerous year. In the United States, President Reagan increased defense spending and launched the “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative. When a Soviet plane shot down a Korean civilian jet, Reagan described it as “a crime against humanity.” And Moscow grew increasingly concerned about America’s language and behavior. Would they attack? The temperature rose, fast. In November the West launched a wargame exercise, codenamed “Abel Archer,” that looked to the Soviets just like the real thing. With the Soviet leader Andropov’s finger inching ever closer to the nuclear button, the world was truly at the brink.

In 1983, Taylor Downing draws on previously unpublished interviews and over a thousand pages of secret documents that have recently been released by Washington to tell the gripping, astonishing story that was almost the end of the world. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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On Sale
Apr 24, 2018
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781549198014

Taylor Downing

About the Author

Taylor Downing is an award-winning television producer and the author of several “vivid and fast-paced” (Financial Times) history books, including Cold War, Spies in the Sky, and Churchill’s War Lab. He has also written for the Observer, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, History Today, and Military History Monthly. Downing lives in London.

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