Russian crisis management from Able Archer 1983 to Andøya 1995: Successful avoidance of nuclear escalation or ‘rolling the nuclear dice’?

• Main Author: Hatteland, Amund Sandnes
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: Norwegian Bokmål
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: nuclear crisis management; Able Archer 83 crisis Andøya rocket crisis; Soviet Union; Russia; Andøya; Archer; Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/88581; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-91207

Theory on successful crisis management is applied to try to shed light on two important and relatively under-examined nuclear crises and their further implications for Russian nuclear crisis management. By conducting a historical explorative type of thesis, I apply Stephen J. Cimbala’s four attribut...