Able Archer: The "Games" to KILL Everyone (Are Back). | Prof. Ted Postol & Rainer Rupp
This is the insane story of Nuclear War Games in Europe and the little-known story of the most dangerous moment for in Europe after the Cuban Missile Crisis: the "Able Archer" war games of 1983. It's the story of how we escaped a nuclear holocaust because of the courageous sharing of war game secretes by the spies on the continent.I’m joined by Ted Postol, an MIT professor emeritus and nuclear weapons researcher, and Rainer Rupp a former Spy in the NATO headquarters. Ted walks through the real physical effects of a single airburst over Berlin, then Rainer connects that reality to the 1983 war scare, Able Archer, and the dangerous gap between nuclear planning and what nuclear weapons actually do.
Links:
Able Archer 83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
Operation RYAN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_RYAN
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction and nuclear war premise
00:01:06 One detonation over Berlin setup
00:05:02 Fireball heat and shockwave basics
00:13:08 Thermal burns and blast at 5 km
00:22:00 Firestorms shelters and mass death
00:26:21 1983 war scare Able Archer and RYAN
00:43:11 Pentagon view submarines and accident risk
00:53:14 Leadership blind spots and short warning time
01:09:42 2026 Europe nuclear debate and closing remarks Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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