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How world was just minutes from nuclear apocalypse after chilling war exercise mix-up

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Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!It's November 1983. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, Billy Joel's Upton Girl was dominating the music charts and £26 million was stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.But what no-one knew at the time was just how close the planet had come to all-out nuclear war.The Cold War was still raging with the Soviet Union and the West at loggerheads.

US president Ronald Reagan had recently called the Eastern Bloc the "empire of evil" and both sides were adding to their nuclear arsenals.The West had also recently carried out a series of provocative military exercises.

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