The Year The World Almost Ended | Twice

PRIMARY SOURCES (all 42 sources are listed in the pinned comment) PFIAB / National Security Archive EBB 533 (1990) https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb53... US Department of State, Office of the Historian (via National Security Archive) (1989) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/aa... Nate Jones, The Washington Post (2025) https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigati... National Security Archive (2025) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/ab... US Department of State, Office of the Historian (2021) https://static.history.state.gov/frus/frus... National Security Archive (2018) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/aa... Pavel Podvig (2022) https://russianforces.org/blog/2022/10/did... National Security Archive doc 22 (2007) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/aa... Simon Miles, Journal of Cold War Studies 22:3 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00952 Benjamin B. Fischer, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence (1997) https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/books-mo... National Security Archive EBB 371 (quoting Robert Gates, From the Shadows) (2012) https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371/ Gregory Pedlow, SHAPE Historian (NSA EBB 427) (2013) https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB427/ National Security Archive EBB 427 (1989) https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB427/ BBC News Ukraine (Petrov interview, in Russian) (2013)    • СССР-США: 23 минуты на грани Апокалипсиса   Nate Jones, Unredacted (National Security Archive) (2013) https://unredacted.com/2013/11/04/british-... U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judge James E. Boasberg) (2022) https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60679... U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (2024) https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/9513... FOOTAGE (fair use, for commentary and criticism, unless public domain) Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (public domain). BBC News Ukraine, interview with Stanislav Petrov (2013). PBS, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (22 Nov 1983), via the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. WPVI-TV 6ABC broadcast of The Day After (20 Nov 1983), via archive.org. PHOTOS CC licences (Wikimedia Commons): Michael Neubert CC BY 2.0; Cliff, National Air and Space Museum, CC BY 2.0; Tony Webster CC BY 2.0; Queery-54 CC BY-SA 4.0; Ex13 CC BY-SA 3.0; mil.ru CC BY 4.0; Su-15TM, State Aviation Museum, Kyiv, CC0. Public domain: The White House, US Air Force, US Department of Defense, US National Archives (via National Security Archive EBB 371), US Department of State, U.S. Courts, NASA FIRMS, TASS 1982, AP 1983. DOCUMENTS AND MAPS Declassified documents: National Security Archive (George Washington University), Foreign Relations of the United States (Office of the Historian), US federal courts (CourtListener). Historical borders: CShapes 2.0 (ETH Zurich). Coastlines and rivers: Natural Earth. MUSIC Music by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Tracks: Frozen Star