Closer than Cuba: the Able Archer Nuclear Crisis of 1983

A brisk 40-minute treatment of the Able Archer 83 crisis — from the KAL 007 shootdown through Petrov's near-launch to the NATO exercise that Moscow may have read as a genuine first-strike prelude. Covers the key beats without breaking new ground, but it's a well-structured introduction to an event that remains under-known relative to its stakes.