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On the BRINK
TV & Satellite Week
|January 18, 2025
How a 1980s maritime incident nearly sparked a nuclear war
Whiskey on the Rocks
Available: Wednesday 22 January
Genre: Drama
It sounds stranger than fiction, but this darkly comic political satire about a diplomatic crisis that nearly sparked World War Three is actually based on a true story. Swedish-language series Whiskey on the Rocks recounts the terrifying brinkmanship that ensued when a Soviet submarine ran aground near a Swedish military base in October 1981.
This story is from the January 18, 2025 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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