 He also believes that if we opened them up a bit, their leading citizens would get braver about proposing changes in their system.I'm going to pursue this.It's clear that the United States did not have any intentions of launching a nuclear first strike against the Soviets, but were having a significant amount of trouble communicating this.Project RYAN continued to feed into Soviet fears that the United States was being dishonest, and Able Archer 83 simply fanned the flames.