September 27, 2022 • 3 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Man, I love the eighties arcade games, Fannie Pack's acid
wash jeans, Jane Fonda doing jazzer size, I mean, what's
not to like? And feeling so fine? Oh yeah, the
looming threat of nuclear war. The temperature of a new
care fable is twenty million degree cool boy. Yep. The
(00:29):
nineteen eighties weren't all robotron and Rubeis cubes. There was
also that out of control nuclear arms race between the
United States and the Soviet Union, and a lot of
people spent the eighties deeply existentially terrified of nuclear war,
including me. But what most people don't know is in
(00:50):
November of the United States and the Soviet Union almost
started an actual nuclear war entirely by accident, and none
of us knew anything about it, Which makes me think
of a story. I'm at helps and I'm hosting a
(01:11):
new podcast called Snaffhoo. It's a show about gaffs, the
disaster's history's greatest screw ups. On season one of Snaffhoo,
the story of Able Archer three, the NATO military exercise
that nearly triggered World War three. You know, this is
more like two drunks in a bar circling one another.
And it's not so much that anybody would deliberately choose
(01:34):
to start the war. It's just that things would spiral
out of control. This is a true story about what
really happens in the highest echelons of power, deception, espionage,
political miscalculation, all while the fate of the human race
hangs in the balance. It's a story with an a
list cast, a Hollywood actor turned president. It didn't give
(01:55):
me a real understanding of the communist menace, a paranoid
Soviet dictator, he is preparing your Southern concert to treason,
as spies totally immersed in this world of espionage and surveillance.
And a dauntless sleuth who wanted to get to the
bottom of it all. Pull out the folder, open it up,
(02:18):
and it has this green card that says every historians
nightmare classified. So what's the real story of Able Archer
eighty three that lies buried in government archives? Is it
just a story of an almost armageddon? Or is it
a mind game all its own to find out how
(02:38):
close we were to doomsday and why most of us
have no idea it even happened. Subscribe to Snaffoo, premiering
October five on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts,
or wherever the hell you get your podcasts. I mean,
it is a miracle. We did not all die like
it's just goofy
Man, I love the eighties arcade games, Fannie Pack's acid
wash jeans, Jane Fonda doing jazzer size, I mean, what's
not to like? And feeling so fine? Oh yeah, the
looming threat of nuclear war. The temperature of a new
care fable is twenty million degree cool boy. Yep. The
(00:29):
nineteen eighties weren't all robotron and Rubeis cubes. There was
also that out of control nuclear arms race between the
United States and the Soviet Union, and a lot of
people spent the eighties deeply existentially terrified of nuclear war,
including me. But what most people don't know is in
(00:50):
November of the United States and the Soviet Union almost
started an actual nuclear war entirely by accident, and none
of us knew anything about it, Which makes me think
of a story. I'm at helps and I'm hosting a
(01:11):
new podcast called Snaffhoo. It's a show about gaffs, the
disaster's history's greatest screw ups. On season one of Snaffhoo,
the story of Able Archer three, the NATO military exercise
that nearly triggered World War three. You know, this is
more like two drunks in a bar circling one another.
And it's not so much that anybody would deliberately choose
(01:34):
to start the war. It's just that things would spiral
out of control. This is a true story about what
really happens in the highest echelons of power, deception, espionage,
political miscalculation, all while the fate of the human race
hangs in the balance. It's a story with an a
list cast, a Hollywood actor turned president. It didn't give
(01:55):
me a real understanding of the communist menace, a paranoid
Soviet dictator, he is preparing your Southern concert to treason,
as spies totally immersed in this world of espionage and surveillance.
And a dauntless sleuth who wanted to get to the
bottom of it all. Pull out the folder, open it up,
(02:18):
and it has this green card that says every historians
nightmare classified. So what's the real story of Able Archer
eighty three that lies buried in government archives? Is it
just a story of an almost armageddon? Or is it
a mind game all its own to find out how
(02:38):
close we were to doomsday and why most of us
have no idea it even happened. Subscribe to Snaffoo, premiering
October five on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts,
or wherever the hell you get your podcasts. I mean,
it is a miracle. We did not all die like
it's just goofy
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