🟢 Did you like this video? You can support the channel, and get some exclusive perks on Patreon! 🌏 Discord 🙌 Instagram 🐦 Twitter ---- It’s the hot summer of 1983, and the cold war rages. Ronald Reagan is US president, Michael Jackson’s Thriller is at the top of the charts, and Pacman is all the rage. The threat of nuclear war looms large, and every political football risks being used as a reason to whip out the nuclear football. This almost comic juxtaposition of pop, and politics formed the backdrop against which Korean Airlines flight 7 took to the skies above New York on August 31st. On this night, in an atmosphere thick with cold war tension, an incredible series of events would unfold out over the Pacific Ocean, which would bring the world to the brink of war.
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