Original Game WW3 begins on 18 November 1989 with a US strike on the Soviet Union after a war game simulation is accidentally fed into NORAD computer systems.
I have never heard of anyone playing an original game though. Most come later than 1989; so they can use newer, cooler toys. There was game written about where the PD set events as if the Cuban Missile crisis blew up into a nuclear exchange.
The copyright for the 3rd edition is 1980 and 1989 was in the future then, however most people want to play something with a start a little closer to present.
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