The US State Department quietly deleted documents about the “nuclear war crisis of 1983”.

According to Isna, the US State Department has secretly removed documents published on the Internet about the risk of an accidental nuclear war with the Soviet Union during NATO’s Abel Archer 83 exercise in November 1983 in Western Europe.

The Washington Post reported by publishing this article: According to the law since 1991, this ministry is required to publish a “complete, accurate and authentic” history of American foreign policy in the form of a collection called “Foreign Relations of the United States” no later than 30 years after the events.

In the age of the Internet, this collection is mostly available in digital form on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In January 2025, when the State Department reloaded the Reagan administration’s website, it removed 15 pages that addressed the “threat of an unintended nuclear war” during that 1983 exercise.

Previously, the revelations related to this event, known as the “Abel Archer 83 war crisis”, included historical documents such as the warning of the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, who emphasized that this exercise “put America on the brink of a nuclear war more than the public knows.”

A State Department spokeswoman told The Washington Post that the department has not publicly explained the reasons for the removals because it is “not required to provide public notice.”

The deleted documents are said to be still available in other Internet archives.

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