How a banal military exercise in the United States almost started an atomic war. The breathless chronicle of an episode of the cold war unknown to the general public.
In 1983, the NATO staff organized a large-scale military exercise to test communication procedures. Closely watched by the Soviet regime, the operation began on November 2 in an extremely tense international context. Previously, President Reagan reignited the arms race by installing the new Pershing 3 missiles in Europe.
Despite the pacifist movements, he drives home the point of this strategy, driven by the famous speech on "The Evil Empire", delivered in March 1983. Two weeks later, he launched the program of the "Star wars". On the Soviet side, Andropov succeeded Brezhnev. This career spy, aged and in poor health, does not want to show weakness towards the West. Mistrust is at its height on both sides. Until a Russian military satellite detects - by mistake - the launch of several missiles...
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