September 26th, 1983: The day the world almost died

Daily Mail ^ | 29th December 2007 | Tony Rennel

[Vision Thing]

Those events, 24 years ago, are also a reminder that, for all the concerns about global warning, mankind's greatest danger may still be its vast nuclear arsenals.

It has largely gone unnoticed that this year, with increasing fears of proliferation, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock up to five minutes to midnight, closer to nuclear catastrophe than at almost any time since the phoney war of 1983.

What this panty-waist of an article author dares not mention is that the real nuclear threat is neither Russia nor the Americans, but the nuclear proliferation within the realm of Islamofascism.

[Running On Empty]

Thanks for this article.

Does anyone on FR remember the incident of the “Lebanon caves” in 1982?

There was talk at that time of Russian subs off the coast of Lebanon, with the intent of setting things up for an incursion into the Middle-east. IIRC, they were discovered by the Israelis and the planned operation was aborted. There were those at that time who claimed that the story was spiked here in the US.

I can’t say for certain re: the veracity of the claims.

[Bon mots]

Interesting timing for this pro-Soviet presentation.

Trying to represent Republicans as DANGEROUS. Better to vote for someone the left likes.

Someone the Soviets and Russians need not fear...

[prairiebreeze]

What link or gospel band are you referring to?

(not to pick nits, but I must offer a small correction....in a bluegrass band they would be referred to as a fiddle player, not violin)

:^)

[Blue Highway]

Good point about it being called a fiddle player in bluegrass music. I was referring to the video links in kjam22’s tagline.

[Fresh Wind]

He and his men watched and listened on headphones for any sign of movement - anything unusual that might suggest the U.S. was launching a nuclear attack.

It's much easier simply to read the New York Times. They can be counted on to announce any US military plans well before the event.

[tanknetter]

Apologies if I am incorrect, but wasn't Howard Hughes ship the Glomar Explorer ? And wasn't the Soviet vessel K-129 recovery project called Project Jennifer and didn't it happen around the mid-1970's ?

There were two "Glomar" ships involved in Operation Jennifer: Explorer and Challenger.

They were near-sisters, Explorer being newer, somewhat larger and specifically designed and built for Jennifer. But they looked very, very similar. Challenger was used as a decoy during the attempts by Explorer to raise the Golf.

[thestob]

wasn’t there an incident in 1993 or 1994 where Russia thought we had launched a missile and Yeltsin was at the point of having to decide to launch ....I believe the missile turned out to be the launch of a weather satellite from Norway. I’m sure someone on here knows more detail.

[Defiant]

This writer’s pro-Soviet inclinations are sprinkled throughout this piece. It is crap, with snippets of interesting information. It seems to me, between Charlie’s War and a host of re-examinations of the victory in the cold war that have been in print lately, that the CIA and State Dept. losers who have been undermining Bush’s presidency are trying to rewrite the Cold War so that they can get their way in the war on terror and take the gloss off of the Republican record of protecting this nation.

[Joya]

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[swmobuffalo]

“Candlelight Kumbaya vigils for Peace would have only earned their contempt.”

Just as they do now. Ron Paul are you listening?

[Clemenza]

They also turned “Gorby” and his materialistic wife Raisa into a new Royal Family.

[vertolet]

You’re right.
Kennedy agreed to remove all missiles set in Turkey on the border of the Soviet Union in exchange for Khrushchev removing all missiles in Cuba.

[eldoradude]

K-129 sunk on or around March 7, 1968 off of Hawaii.

Red Star Rogue, by Keneth Sewell and Clint Richmond tells a lot of the story. A good read.

[petitfour]

In the Soviet Union, the military went on to their equivalent of the U.S. defence forces' DefCon 1, the final warning of an imminent attack and the last stage before pressing the button for an all to real massive retaliation.

Isn't DefCon 5 the designation for the final warning of an imminent attack? And DefCon 1 is the lowest level?

[dead]

bttt

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**There were two “Glomar” ships involved in Operation Jennifer: Explorer and Challenger. **

Maybe that is why I called it the Glomar Challenger. I knew the name stuck in my head from somewhere.

[AU72]

Many don’t know how close we were to going to war with USSR in October, 1973, at the height of the Yom Kippur War.

It was darn close. Soviet Union was not bluffing when they alerted their Airborne Division in the Crimea and put the Black Sea Fleet to combat movement when the Egyptian 3rd Army was cut off as Ariel Sharon's Armored Brigades crossed the Suez.

[Nailbiter]

good read thanks

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 12/30/2007. Thanks vertolet.