Andreev Bay nuclear accident of 1982 (opens in new tab)

Rest assured, the Soviet government did not need any pressure from the outside to create its own version of hell on earth. If you doubt this, just read the Gulag Archipel (amongst others). The problems seen here do not relate to any western policies, they stem from the ineptitude of the Soviet government and pre-date any western attempt to topple the latter by "forcing" them to increase military spending:

   "The repository was constructed in the early 1960s
    by construction brigade soldiers from central Asian
    and Caucasian republics. Many did not have professional
    construction training, and some could not speak the
    Russian language."

From what I have read, that US policy started with Reagan, who was elected president in 1981. And the Soviets, as communists, were quite clear their long-term objective was to communize the whole world.

fallacy alert.

If an Article was titled "Obama for President [2017]" because the article was written in 2017, it would be misleading because the article is about his presidency in 2008.

If an article published this year about the holocaust was titled "6M Jews dead [2017]," referencing the holocaust of world war 2, it would also be misleading because is is also not about 2017.

Therefor, the ask for the year was to clarify people clicking in to the wikipedia page, that it's not current world news...

Just because you reply with a truism, it doesn't make you correct.