S1E1: Not All Fun and WarGames
SNAFU with Ed Helms
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Able Archer 83
Each side made a gamble that if they could just build enough weapons their adversary wouldn't dare test them. They were bound by the contract of mutually assured destruction. It was a horrific game of nuclear chicken. And it would lead right to Able Archer 83, which some say is the closest we came to a nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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