1983coldwar

The International History Department at LSE marks the fortieth anniversary of the events of 1983 when the world was brought again to the 'Nuclear Brink'.

On 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the Soviet nuclear early warning system Oko reported the launch of one intercontinental ballistic missile with ...

2024年3月20日 — On September 1, 1983, Soviet Air Defenses on the Kamchatka Peninsula were on high alert. Still stung by the FleetEx 83 incursions in April, they ...

2022年4月27日 — In November 1983, during a particularly tense period in the Cold War, Soviet observers spotted planes carrying what appeared to be warheads ...

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm ...

2023年12月12日 — In late 1983 the United States and Soviet Union stumbled into the “war scare” – after the Cuban missile crisis, perhaps the most dangerous ...

2021年3月16日 — On Nov. 4, 1983, under the cover of a haze of chemical weapons, the Soviet Army crossed the Fulda Gap, pushing into West Germany. Outnumbered, ...

2022年12月2日 — Decades after the end of the Cold War and 60 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the serious specter of nuclear war was once again in the ...

2022年10月14日 — On September 26, 1983, however, the system, code-named Oko, malfunctioned. At around midnight, Oko's alarms rang out, alerting the base of one ...