There's a novel by Frederick Forsyth called the Devil's Alternative which is set in the 80's (I don't think a specific date is specified). Part of the plot involves the Soviet Union planning a pre emptive attack on the west following a gigantic FUBAR that poisons a large amount of the Soviets' wheat harvest (not dissimilar to the circumstances in Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising but replacing oil with wheat).
Weren't General Hackett's books (and, by extension, Team Yankee) set in that period as well?
Thinking about Harold Coyle, events outlined in Sword Point could also spark WW3 in the 1980's?
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