Brian J. Morra: The Able Archers
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Korean Airlines 007: A Predictive for a Nuclear First Strike
Korean Airlines 007 and all these other things how does this all come to a head and bring us to the brink of war well there was also a school of thought in the Kremlin at the time and urine drop off may have believed it himself that KL zero zero zero seven was a provocation to serve as a predicate for a nuclear first strike. And again if your whole mental furniture is built around Operation Ryan and that's what the West intends to do then why not send a Korean airliner in there to provoke a response from the Soviet Union? That was some of the thinking in the Kremlin and I don't think this has ever been discussed anywhere else"
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