“Thirty-two years ago, a NATO nuclear release exercise named Able Archer 83 “may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger,” according to an above-Top Secret President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board report released last month to the National Security Archive after a twelve-year fight.  The release sparked extensive media coverage including a front-page story in The Washington Post.  To mark this anniversary, the Archive has launched a new edition of its Able Archer Sourcebook(more than one thousand pages), the largest collection of declassified documents on the 1983 War Scare, now available at http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ablearcher/…”