{"id":784,"date":"2008-01-10T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T07:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=784"},"modified":"2008-01-10T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T07:42:35","slug":"operation-able-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Operation Able Archer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only just watched a recording I made of a weekend Channel Four programme about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A19142200\">Operation Able Archer<\/a> in 1983.<br \/>\nIt was the closest that we came to World War Three with the exception of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and I confess that I had never heard of it.  Fundamentally the crisis came down to a total lack of understanding of NATO\/US intentions by the then USSR.<br \/>\nThe Cold War was one of the maddest periods of human history when the stakes in terms of potential loss of life were never higher. Let us hope that we never see its like again and that we are now a world that has better communication and understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only just watched a recording I made of a weekend Channel Four programme about Operation Able Archer in 1983. It was the closest that we came to World War Three with the exception of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and I confess that I had never heard of it. Fundamentally the crisis came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}