The Exercise That Nearly Started a War | Operation Brasstacks 1987

Operation Brasstacks (1986-87): the Indian Army exercise that took India and Pakistan to the brink of war, A.Q. Khan's nuclear threat and Zia's cricket diplomacy. Narrated in Hindi. 0:00 Trailer 0:49 Scene: 15 January 1987 1:49 Ch 1: Sitting on a Powder Keg 4:10 Ch 2: The Biggest Game in the Desert 7:07 Ch 3: The Missing Division 12:24 Ch 4: A Threat Locked in a Notebook 16:19 Ch 5: Cricket for Peace 20:18 Ch 6: So What Was the Truth? 24:19 Bookend: That Evening, and the List 25:07 You Choose the Next Story (Poll) Sources: New York Times (6 Mar 1987); India Today (15 Feb 1987); P.R. Chari, Carnegie Endowment (2013) and Stimson Center (2003); National Security Archive, NIE 93-37 (1993); CIA Reading Room (Oct 1987); ADST oral histories; Rediff interview with Lt Gen P.N. Hoon (1999); LA Times and UPI (Feb 1987). AI disclosure: Narration is an AI voice (Sarvam AI Bulbul, Hindi TTS). Some scenes are AI-illustrated symbolic reconstructions, not photos of real events; real people are never shown with AI faces. Archive photos, documents and maps via Wikimedia Commons, CIA Reading Room and National Security Archive (CC licences, GODL-India, public domain). Music and SFX are original. Subscribe to Glimpse at History for more stories from Indian history. #OperationBrasstacks #IndiaPakistan #IndianArmy #RajivGandhi #ZiaulHaq #IndianHistory #GlimpseAtHistory