I'm reminded of Congressman Larry McDonald, John Birch Society President and Georgia Dixiecrat, who died an inadvertant martyr the anti-communist Crusade he fomented.

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The Near Nuclear War of 1983  | Air & Space Forces Magazine How the Air Force helped avert a nuclear catastrophe and save the world.

Worth a read:

The Near Nuclear War of 1983, by Brian J. Morra (2022).

"In 1983, the two nuclear superpowers were like blindfolded boxers careening toward a death match. Almost no one on the U.S. side realized it."
www.airandspaceforces.com/article/the-... #AbleArcher83 #KAL007 #EvilEmpire

Cold War Conversations: The shooting down of KAL007, the Able Archer exercise and the nuclear war scare of 1983 (229) The year 1983 was one of the most dangerous in human history. While the Cuban crisis was exceptionally dangerous and both the United States and the Soviet Union had significant nuclear arsenals in ...

From the archive - #KAL007 & #AbleArcher pod.fo/e/1174be

I remember being put on DEFCON 2 when #KAL007 got whacked off #SakhalinIsland....

"Можем повторить 1979-1989" / "We can repeat 1979-1989": #KAL007 = #AHY8243