Call of Duty: Cold War is set in the early 1980s, during the beginning of the first Reagan administration and the beginning of the end of the Cold War. The developers based the game on historical events, but there are a lot of Tom Clancy-esque plotlines and Michael Bay-like action sequences thrown into the mix.

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So, what events in the game are historically accurate? And which ones are fiction? Surprisingly, there is a lot that the story in Cold War got right. However, anyone who uses this game as a source for a school paper might not be pleased with the grade they get. We'll get an easy entry out of the way right now – zombies (the undead) aren't real.

10 Accurate – There Was A Soviet Spy At Los Alamos

Call of Duty: Cold War Los Alamos

In one of the Cold War’s first cutscenes, the narrator informs the player that information from the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos was stolen by a Soviet Spy. This is true, except there was more than one Soviet spy working on this top-secret project (there were actually three of them).

The more famous of these spies was Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs was a theoretical physicist that provided the Soviet Union with allied nuclear secrets until he was caught and imprisoned in 1950. The other notable Soviet spy at Los Alamos was Oscar Seborer. Seborer was a U.S. soldier stationed at Los Alamos.

9 Inaccurate – The Perseus Character Possibly Never Existed

Call of Duty: Cold War Perseus

The Perseus character (as far as we know) may have existed, but there are many historians who dispute his existence. Some scholars have speculated that Perseus was the fourth Soviet spy to have infiltrated the Los Alamos nuclear site. Oscar Seborer is suspected to possibly be Perseus; however, Seborer’s KGB codename was Godsend.

If there was a Soviet spy named Perseus at Los Alamos, it is highly unlikely he was a native Russian. So, even if there was a Perseus he was almost certainly nothing like the Perseus character in Call of Duty: Cold War.

8 Accurate – The CIA Was Active In East Berlin During The Cold War

Call of Duty: Cold War East Berlin Ghost Station

A portion of the early game takes place in East Berlin. This was a major battleground for the clandestine organizations involved in the Cold War. This front saw many cat-and-mouse operations between the CIA, KGB, and Stasi.

A lot of players of Cold War might think that there wasn’t a subway line that connected East and West Berlin. Why would the Soviets build a wall through Berlin but allow a subway to cross the border? There actually was one line that connected two points of West Berlin by briefly crossing under the Berlin Wall.

7 Inaccurate – Anachronistic Military Equipment

Call of Duty: Cold War Destroying Soviet Attack Helicopter

During the mission set during the Vietnam War (in 1968), you take control of an attack helicopter. While destroying Viet Cong emplacements, you are attacked by a Soviet attack helicopter. This helicopter closely resembles a Mil MI-24 attack helicopter, also known as the “flying tank.”

The problem with this is that the MI-24 didn’t enter formal production until 1972. Every other Soviet attack helicopter resembling the one in the game came much later than 1972. The helicopter was still in the testing phase in 1970. This would preclude it from being involved in combat during the Vietnam War in 1968.

6 Accurate – Historically Accurate Military Equipment

Call of Duty: Cold War AK-47

While some military equipment is anachronistic in Call of Duty: Cold War, a lot of items are historically accurate for the time. The firearms that are used are the most obvious example of this authenticity.

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Most Soviet soldiers are armed with an AK-47 in the game, and the MP-5 is a commonly used weapon in urban settings by groups like the CIA and MI-6. There were frag grenades and flash-bang grenades in the 1980s as well. The RC car used to disable the cargo plane is also something that was technologically possible in 1981.

5 Inaccurate – The U.S. Did Not Have Nuclear Weapons In Vietnam

Call of Duty: Cold War Nuclear Bomb Recovery

The flashback mission early in the game has the objective of securing and extracting the nuclear bomb the Viet Cong stole from the U.S. military. There are no records of the U.S. military having nuclear weapons positioned in Vietnam. Why position your most devastating weapon where it can be stolen by the enemy; especially when it can be transported to the theater of war at any time from the homeland?

There were plans to deploy them; however, President Lyndon Johnson did not approve of the operation, and presidential approval is required to use or deploy nuclear weapons.

4 Accurate – The CIA And MI-6 Do Work Together

Call of Duty: Cold War Character Dossiers

The team of black-ops agents you join in Call of Duty: Cold War is comprised mostly of CIA agents. There is one agent in the crew, Helen Park, that’s on loan from MI-6, the British equivalent of the CIA. It can seem like fiction for these organizations to just loan each other operatives.

Despite being clandestine, covert spy organizations the CIA and MI-6 have a long history of cooperation. Their relationship is so close that they have permanent, dedicated liaison officers that facilitate communication between the two organizations.

3 Inaccurate – The Timeline

Call of Duty: Cold War Television At Safehouse

The timeline of certain events doesn’t line-up with their real-life counterparts. The first one of these to be encountered by a player is the briefing given by Reagan and members of his cabinet to the CIA agents. Reagan acts like he and the agents have a long working relationship.

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The problem is that Reagan was only sworn in one month before the events of the game. The television in the safehouse is playing Reagan being sworn in during February, even though that actually happened in January. There is a VHS machine on the television, but it doesn’t appear to be the source of the video. For starters, the cassette holder is in the eject position and empty.

2 Accurate – There Actually Was A Member Of The CIA That Was Working For The KGB

Call of Duty: Cold War KGB Headquarters

Spoilers ahead. You eventually discover near the end of the campaign that they are a brainwashed KGB asset that has infiltrated the CIA. This could never happen in real life, right? Well, this has happened; in fact, it has happened more than once.

Aldrich Ames was a CIA agent that was secretly working as a double-agent for the KGB. He was exposed and convicted in 1994 to life in prison without the possibility for parole. He is currently housed at a federal prison in Indiana. Edward Lee Howard is another CIA agent that was secretly working for the KGB.

1 Inaccurate – There Was No Operation Greenlight

Call of Duty: Cold War Going To Moscow

In Call of Duty: Cold War, there is a covert operation called “Operation Greenlight” that had placed a neutron bomb under select European cities so they could be destroyed in the event the Soviet Union conquered Europe. It’s probably not going to be a shock to most readers, but this part of the story is pure fiction.

There was no Operation Greenlight – the U.S. didn’t hide neutron bombs under European cities. There is little evidence that plans were developed for the use of neutron bombs in the above scenario, but these would have been mobilized when needed and not hidden beneath the cities of our allies.

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