Forecasting Nuclear War
Forecasting Nuclear War: Stasi/KGB Intelligence Cooperation under Project RYaN By Bernd Schaefer, Nate Jones, and Benjamin B. Fischer Between 1981 and 1989 the foreign intelligence branches of the Soviet KGB and the East German Ministry of State Security launched a combined effort to develop a system for detecting signs of an impending western nuclear first strike. Codenamed “Project RYaN”, this early-warning system constituted one...