Able Archer 1983??

[Mohoender]

I was thinking of it as an alternative timeline.

Did anyone of you managed to do some research on it?

What if spys from both sides had fallen to it as their higer command did?

What if Ronald Reagan had been part of it and what if it had effectively gone wrong?

Anyones ideas?

[kato13]

Able Archer 83

Wikipedia assist.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by kato13

Able Archer 83

Wikipedia assist.

How do you put a link into this forum without having to copy and paste a long URL?

[kato13]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

How do you put a link into this forum without having to copy and paste a long URL?

There are a several of ways to make links

Just typing anything with http:// or www at the beginning will make a long link you described.

To make a link with a title you need to do the following
[url=www.cnn.com]CNN website[/url]
e.g. CNN website

If you are using the standard message creation window (the one with all the selectable options and the Smilies to the right look for this image it will help you make a link.

If you are not using that editor you can select it under the User CP -> Edit Options ->Message Editor Interface

Overall that is kinda complicated so for english wikipedia results I created the following
[wiki]United States[/wiki]
e.g. United States
where whatever you put inside the wiki tag will be what comes after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ (spaces will convert to underscores)

hope that helps.

[pmulcahy11b]

Thanks, Kato. I'll give it a try next time I post a link.

[Cpl. Kalkwarf]

Originally Posted by Mohoender

I was thinking of it as an alternative timeline.

Did anyone of you managed to do some research on it?

What if spys from both sides had fallen to it as their higer command did?

What if Ronald Reagan had been part of it and what if it had effectively gone wrong?

Anyones ideas?

I was toying around with this very Idea of a new campaign, calling it twilight 1984. I was active duty Marine Corps at the time. Some of us on the lower end thought it was real too. There was an one time where we were readied and I remember some of us were talking amongst ourselves that we would probably never see home again. A very somber time for a young corporal I was back then.

I really should of kept a diary.

[Mohoender]

Originally Posted by Cpl. Kalkwarf

I really should of kept a diary.

That is something we all should do and forget to do. Never too late.

[simonmark6]

This is quite scary, in mid October 1983 my band were rehearsing for the National Brass Band Chanpionships. We were rehearsing in the Chelsea Barracks and as we were leaving a squadie was changing the Bikini Alert from, I think, something to yellow. I was a bit worried because I thought it meant we were near to a nuclear war. I told our conductor who told me to shut up and concentrate on the contest. he said that if the world was going to end we might as well be the Champion band....

I suppose it was just a part of the build up to the drill.

[perardua]

I miss the Bikini State signs we used to have all over the place. They were much brighter than those boring threat level signs we have now.

[pmulcahy11b]

Well, on the bad side, it could have led to the end of the world as we know it. On the good side, if the balloon had gone up, I might have gotten the commission I was otherwise denied...

I wonder if SGM Mills (one of my ROTC instructors) knew about all that. He had pipelines into just about everywhere in the armed forces, including those in other countries -- it was a benefit of being in the special ops community for so long.

[Fusilier]

Originally Posted by simonmark6

I was a bit worried because I thought it meant we were near to a nuclear war. I told our conductor who told me to shut up and concentrate on the contest. he said that if the world was going to end we might as well be the Champion band....

That's awesome. I love it.