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The Story Behind the Able Archers Dedications – Part One
I dedicated The Able Archers to the memory of three men who were instrumental in preventing an escalation to world war in the fall of 1983. General Charles L. Donnelly, Jr., United States Air Force (b. 24 August 1929, d. 3 July 1994) Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, Air Defense Forces of the Soviet Union (b. 7 September 1939, d. 17 May 2017)...
Fictional protagonists of the Able Archers Series
Biographies of the fictional protagonists of the Able Archers Series Current as of November 1983 Kevin Cattani, United States Air Force Intelligence Born: Southern Virginia, USA, in 1956 Education: BA, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1977 US Air Force Training: Air Force Officers Training School, 1977, San Antonio, Texas...
Why I wrote The Able Archers
Almost everyone has heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and how the Kennedy Administration was able to defuse a situation that could have led to a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. By contrast, almost no one knows about an equally dangerous crisis (a more dangerous crisis according to some) that occurred in the...