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S1E1: Not All Fun and WarGames

SNAFU with Ed Helms

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Do You Remember Able Archer?

Gene Seymour: Able Archer was a NATO exercise. He says the players sat in a bunker in Belgium, practicing how if it came to it,. They'd fight a nuclear war against the Soviet Union. Seymour: It's an example of how military professionals are weirdly cavalier when they're talking about their work.

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