Able Archer 83 (English Wikipedia)

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archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Walker, Martin (1993). The Cold War: A History. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 276. ISBN 9780805031904.

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Stephen J. Cimbala (2002). The Dead Volcano: The Background and Effects of Nuclear War Complacency. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 92. ISBN 9780275973872.

cia.gov (Global: 133^rd place; English: 275^th place)

Benjamin B. Fischer (March 17, 2007). "A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2009.
Fischer, Benjamin B. (1997). A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare – Phase II: A New Sense of Urgency Archived January 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CIA.
Fischer, "A Cold War Conundrum": Appendix A: RYAN and the Decline of the KGB Archived August 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
Peter Schweizer, Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union (New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994), p. 8, as quoted at Fischer, "A Cold War Conundrum" (CIA Centre for the Study of Intelligence, 2007) Archived January 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on May 18, 2013.
Fischer, A Cold War Conundrum: "Star Wars" Archived January 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
Fischer, "A Cold War Conundrum": Able Archer 83 Archived August 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
Fischer, "A Cold War Conundrum": Appendix B: The Gordievsky File Archived February 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Miles, Simon (August 1, 2020). "The War Scare That Wasn't: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War". Journal of Cold War Studies. 22 (3): 86–118. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00952. ISSN 1520-3972. S2CID 221117442.
Miles, Simon (Summer 2020). "The War Scare That Wasn't: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War". Journal of Cold War Studies. 22 (3): 86–118. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00952. S2CID 221117442.

ethz.ch (Global: 2,203^rd place; English: 1,928^th place)

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Ermarth, Fritz W. (November 11, 2003). "Observations on the 'War Scare' of 1983 From an Intelligence Perch" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2006.

gwu.edu (Global: 1,486^th place; English: 945^th place)

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"The 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part II". nsarchive.gwu.edu.
"Able Archer War Scare "Potentially Disastrous"". National Security Archive. February 17, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
"The 1983 War Scare Declassified and For Real". National Security Archive. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
"Able Archer War Scare 'Potentially Disastrous'". National Security Archive. February 17, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
"The Censored History of Able Archer 83". National Security Archive. November 14, 2025. Retrieved November 16, 2025.

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Nate Jones. "The Able Archer 83 Sourcebook". National Security Archive.
Fischer, Ben B. "The 1983 War Scare in US-Soviet Relations" (PDF). National Security Archive. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 28, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
"Exercise ABLE ARCHER 83: Information from SHAPE Historical Files" (PDF). National Security Archive. March 28, 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 16, 2013.
"Exercise Scenario" (PDF). National Security Archive. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 16, 2013.

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"The 1983 War Scare: 'The Last Paroxysm' of the Cold War Part II". nsarchive2.gwu.edu. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
"The soviet "War Scare" President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board February 15, 1990" (PDF). nsarchive2.gwu.edu.

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From the National Security Archive.

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"H-Diplo Article Review 1024- "The War Scare That Wasn't" | H-Diplo | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
DiCico, Jonathan M. (August 2017). "DiCicco on Jones, 'Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War'". H-Net. Trapped in an intelligence cycle that reinforced fears of susceptibility to surprise nuclear attack, Soviet leaders took steps toward an anticipatory counterattack.

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Callum McKelvie (April 13, 2022). "Able Archer: The NATO exercise that almost went nuclear". livescience.com. Retrieved April 25, 2023.

nationalinterest.org (Global: 2,704^th place; English: 1,967^th place)

Nichols, Tom (August 9, 2014). "Five Ways Nuclear Armageddon Was Almost Unleashed". The National Interest.
Network, Warfare History (September 26, 2019). "These Wargames Nearly Caused Nuclear War in 1983". The National Interest. Retrieved February 21, 2021.

nrk.no (Global: 486^th place; English: 836^th place)

"Andøyrakett satte Russland i krigsberedskap" [Andøyrakett put Russia in war preparedness] (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on October 25, 2014.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

Roberts, Sam (November 9, 2015). "NATO War Games Unwittingly Put Soviets and U.S. on 'Hair Trigger' in '83, Analysis Suggests". The New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2022.

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"Ash Heap of History: President Reagan's Westminster Address 20 Years Later – Remarks by Dr. Richard Pipes". reagansheritage.org. June 3, 2002. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2012.

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Miles, Simon (August 1, 2020). "The War Scare That Wasn't: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War". Journal of Cold War Studies. 22 (3): 86–118. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00952. ISSN 1520-3972. S2CID 221117442.
Miles, Simon (Summer 2020). "The War Scare That Wasn't: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War". Journal of Cold War Studies. 22 (3): 86–118. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00952. S2CID 221117442.

slate.com (Global: 409^th place; English: 260^th place)

Kaplan, Fred (April 27, 2022). "The World Came Much Closer to Nuclear War Than We Ever Realized". Slate Magazine. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
"The Week the World Almost Ended". Slate Magazine. June 7, 2017. Archived from the original on April 19, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
Kaplan, Fred (February 18, 2021). "The World Came Much Closer to Nuclear War Than We Ever Realized". Slate Magazine. Retrieved February 19, 2021.

unlv.edu (Global: 7,963^rd place; English: 4,643^rd place)

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1983: The most dangerous year by Andrew R. Garland, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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"1983 Revisited". USNI Blog. Retrieved February 19, 2021.

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Reagan, Ronald (June 8, 1982). "Address to Members of the British Parliament". University of Texas archives. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2005.

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Jones, Nate (November 13, 2025). "Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
Jones, Nate (November 13, 2025). "State Department erases 15 pages of nuclear history". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 16, 2025.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Benjamin B. Fischer (March 17, 2007). "A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2009.
"Andøyrakett satte Russland i krigsberedskap" [Andøyrakett put Russia in war preparedness] (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on October 25, 2014.
"The Week the World Almost Ended". Slate Magazine. June 7, 2017. Archived from the original on April 19, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
Fischer, Benjamin B. (1997). A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare – Phase II: A New Sense of Urgency Archived January 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CIA.
Fischer, "A Cold War Conundrum": Appendix A: RYAN and the Decline of the KGB Archived August 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
Reagan, Ronald (June 8, 1982). "Address to Members of the British Parliament". University of Texas archives. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2005.
Fischer, Ben B. "The 1983 War Scare in US-Soviet Relations" (PDF). National Security Archive. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 28, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
Peter Schweizer, Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union (New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994), p. 8, as quoted at Fischer, "A Cold War Conundrum" (CIA Centre for the Study of Intelligence, 2007) Archived January 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on May 18, 2013.
"Ash Heap of History: President Reagan's Westminster Address 20 Years Later – Remarks by Dr. Richard Pipes". reagansheritage.org. June 3, 2002. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
Fischer, A Cold War Conundrum: "Star Wars" Archived January 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
"Exercise ABLE ARCHER 83: Information from SHAPE Historical Files" (PDF). National Security Archive. March 28, 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 16, 2013.
"Exercise Scenario" (PDF). National Security Archive. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 16, 2013.
Fischer, "A Cold War Conundrum": Able Archer 83 Archived August 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
Fischer, "A Cold War Conundrum": Appendix B: The Gordievsky File Archived February 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
Ermarth, Fritz W. (November 11, 2003). "Observations on the 'War Scare' of 1983 From an Intelligence Perch" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on July 24, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2006.

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Miles, Simon (August 1, 2020). "The War Scare That Wasn't: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War". Journal of Cold War Studies. 22 (3): 86–118. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00952. ISSN 1520-3972. S2CID 221117442.
Jones, Nate (November 13, 2025). "Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.

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