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1983 in military history
Able Archer 83In May 1981, a closed-session meeting of senior KGB officers and Soviet leaders took place. General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and KGB chairman Yuri Andropov…
Korean Air Lines Flight 007On the morning of the 1st of September 1983, a Boeing 747-230B jet airliner departed from Anchorage International Airport in Alaska.
Strategic Defense InitiativeOn the 23rd of March 1983, President Ronald Reagan stood before a national television audience and declared that nuclear weapons must be rendered impotent…