1983 : the world at the brink / Taylor Downing.

London : Abacus, 2019.

391 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one - more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the United States, President Reagan vastly increased defense spending, described the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire' and launched the 'Star Wars' Strategic Defense Initiative to shield the country from incoming missiles. Seeing all this, Yuri Andropov, the paranoid Soviet leader, became convinced that the US really meant to attack the Soviet Union and he put the KGB on high alert, looking for signs of an imminent nuclear attack. When a Soviet plane shot down a Korean civilian jet, Reagan described it as 'a crime against humanity'. And Moscow grew increasingly concerned about America's language and behaviour. Would they attack?

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