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Heath's fury with Nixon over nuclear stand-off.
(From Newsletter)
Byline: GAVIN CORDON
THE full fury of Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath when the Americans staged a nuclear face-off with Russia without informing Britain or other Nato allies is disclosed in secret files made public today.
The decision by President Richard Nixon to put US forces on worldwide nuclear alert after the Soviets threatened to intervene in the Arab-Israeli war of October, 1973 marked one of the gravest moments of the Cold War.
It took the superpowers closer to nuclear conflict than any time since the Cuban missile crisis - the only other occasion during the Cold War when US forces were put on ''Alert Stage 3''.
Nixon, already mired in the Watergate scandal, and his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, had wanted to send a clear signal to the Russians not to intervene on the side of the Arabs.
However, documents released to the National Archives under the 30-year rule show that the crisis marked a low ebb in the ''special relationship'' between Britain and America.
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