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[PAST EVENT] A talk by Brian Morra, an award-winning author of The Able Archers

October 19, 2023
5:30pm
Location
Ewell Hall, Room 151
221 Jamestown Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
  • Open to the public
The Able Archers is a novel based on real events chronicling how the world nearly came to an end in the autumn of 1983.
The Able Archers is a novel based on real events chronicling how the world nearly came to an end in the autumn of 1983.

Guest talk: "The Greatest Nuclear War Crisis You’ve Never heard of!: The Able Archers and the Soviet War Scare of 1983”
 
A talk by Brian Morra, an award-winning author of The Able Archers.  
 

About Brian

Brian has spent his career in intelligence and national security beginning with his time as a decorated Air Force Intelligence officer and through his many years as a senior executive in the aerospace and defense industry. Brian was encouraged to write the story of The Able Archers by many friends who convinced him that his unique, personal insight could bring the story to life of how humanity narrowly avoided extinction in the fall of 1983. His writing is based on first-hand experience and the stories of the many intriguing people he’s encountered over the years


“A gripping work of fiction, The Able Archers is a powerful reminder of the value of human judgment—and the continuing peril posed by nuclear-armed powers.”
—Robert M. Gates, CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence 1982-1986, Director of Central Intelligence 1991-1993, and Secretary of Defense 2006-2011
 
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