What is it about?
Did we come close to World War III in 1983? The Soviet/Warsaw Pact's military leadership's response to the deployment by NATO member states of American Cruise and Pershing II missiles was one of considerable anxiety, even hysteria. In public and in secret, comparisons were made with 1939 and 1941 - the year of the surprise attack of Hitler on the Soviet Union.
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Why is it important?
This uses material from archives of the Warsaw Pact to show just how potentially unstable the Cold War was - we should not believe that it was a nice, stable relationship that was not in danger of blowing up into a nuclear war
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This page is a summary of: The Soviet response to the euromissiles crisis, Cold War History, November 2008, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9780203887165.ch10.
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