S1: Able Archer 83

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Ed Helms

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Ed Helms tells the story of Able Archer 83, the NATO military exercise that almost caused a real nuclear war in November of 1983… or did it? Using first-hand interviews, archival audio and extensive research from both the U.S./NATO and Soviet sides, the series pulls back the curtain on what has often been called by historians “the closest we came to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

Early ’80s American pop culture was quite literally exploding with nuclear doom. But was a real crisis unfolding right under our noses? One dauntless sleuth grows determined to get to the bottom of a decades-old Cold War mystery: Able Archer 83.