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The year is 1991, and the scene is the beginning of a "crisis game" depicting what might happen in a superpower confrontation. Conceived, produced and anchored by Nightline's Ted Koppel, the one-hour program, The Koppel Report: The Blue X Conspiracy, will be broadcast by ABC on Thursday (Dec...
The show was taped in simultaneous sessions in Washington and Moscow. The participants responded to developments concocted by "control teams" behind the scenes. Koppel headed the team in Washington, and TIME editor at large Strobe Talbott supervised the Soviet operation at the headquarters of the State Committee for Television and...
Reassuringly, the more dangerous and uncertain the game becomes on The Blue X Conspiracy, the more cautious the players turn on both sides. When word reaches the Soviets that the Afghan mujahedin rebels, backed by the U.S., have attacked the key Afghan air base at Bagram with chemical weapons, Georgi...
The American policymakers show similar restraint when the controllers try to unnerve them by having a U.S. KC-135 tanker aircraft stray into Soviet airspace and a U.S. destroyer accidentally ram a Soviet submarine. In the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral William Crowe Jr...
The Blue X Conspiracy contains reminders of how the current climate of U.S.-Soviet relations affects decision making, whether in a mock crisis or a real one. Such a game would probably not have been played in the depths of the cold war, but if it had, there would probably...