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The exercise, codenamed Able Archer, involved numerous NATO allies and simulated NATO's Command, Control, and Communications (C³) procedures during a nuclear war. Some Soviet leaders, because of the preceding world events and the exercise's particularly realistic nature, feared that the exercise was a cover for an actual attack.
Exercise Able Archer was an annual exercise by NATO military forces in Europe that practiced command and control procedures, with emphasis on transition from conventional operations to chemical, nuclear, and conventional operations during a time of war. When it was active, it was seen as the culmination of Exercise Autumn Forge. [1]
Exercise Able Archer was an annual exercise by NATO military forces in Europe. Northern Wedding was a naval exercise held 1970–1986, designed to test NATO's ability to rearm and resupply Europe. Exercise Reforger (Certain Strike) was a major annual exercise and campaign conducted from 1969 to 1993, mainly on German territory.
Able Archer 83 – NATO military exercise that happened over a month after the Petrov incident; Dead Hand – Soviet nuclear weapons-control system; List of nuclear close calls; Norwegian rocket incident – a rocket carrying scientific equipment to study the aurora borealis that resembled a submarine-launched Trident missile
This concern about a surprise attack prompted the sudden expansion of the RYAN program. The level of concern reached its peak after the Soviets shot down KAL 007 near Moneron Island on 1 September 1983, and during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercise Able Archer 83 in November.
Exercise Eskimo; Exercise Able Archer; Exercise Bright Star; Exercise Cope Thunder; Exercise Cope Tiger; Exercise Freedom Banner; Exercise Frisian Flag; Exercise Komodo; Exercise Mavi Balina; Exercise Northern Edge; Exercise Pitch Black; Exercise Reforger; Exercise Talisman Sabre; Exercise Tarang Shakti; Exercise Valiant Shield; Exercise ...
Watch a live firing of the British Army’s new Archer Mobile Howitzer gun close to Russia border. British soldiers fired the new artillery gun for the first time on a tactical exercise in Finland ...
Able Archer was a standard military exercise that was performed annually by the United States. Unfortunately, in 1983, the aforementioned factors all came into play at the wrong time, and Soviet nuclear threat perceptions were at a critical level.