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Notes

1 See also “The Soviet ‘War Scare,’” PFIAB, February 15, 1990, pp. 44–45, <https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//nukevault/ebb533-The-Able-Archer-War-Scare-Declassified-PFIAB-Report-Released/2012-0238-MR.pdf>.

2 Robert McNamara, “Forty Years after 13 Days,” Arms Control Today, November 1, 2002, <www.armscontrol.org/act/2002_11/cubanmissile>.

3 President Carter made this statement at “Atlanta Consultation III: Fulfilling the NPT,” hosted by the Middle Powers Initiative, Carter Center, Atlanta, GA, January 20–22, 2010.

4 David E Hoffman, The Dead Hand (New York: Anchor Books, 2009), pp. 6–11.

5 Ibid., p. 23.

6 Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 257, cited in Jones, Able Archer 83, p. 45, emphasis in original.

7 Thomas Graham, The Alternate Route: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2017), p. 7, endnote 8, p. 245.