<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" id="mwAWs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_post_exercise" id="mwAWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Command post exercise">command post exercise</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83" id="mwAW0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Able Archer 83">Able Archer 83</a> begins, eventually leading to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwAW4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> to place air units in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" id="mwAW8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="East Germany">East Germany</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_People's_Republic" id="mwAXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Polish People's Republic">Poland</a> on alert, for fear that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" id="mwAXE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="NATO">NATO</a> was preparing for war<sup about="#mwt59" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_7#cite_note-7" id="mwAXI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXM">[7]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt63" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_7#cite_note-8" id="mwAXQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXU">[8]</span></a></sup>
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