1981: Whiskey on the Rocks

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In 1981 the Cold War very nearly turned hot with an incident involving a Soviet submarine that came very close to sparking a war, quite possibly involving nuclear weapons. The odd incident in 1981 called “Whiskey on the Rocks” deserves to be remembered.

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