“What will we do after this plan” questions the Admiral clearly worried. Just before anyone can give an answer the Admiral continues talking. “This will not make the hostilities against our 2 countries end you do know that”. “Of course we know that, however after we carry out our plan we can launch an invasion of some kind then if needs be or possibly if we have to, hit some more cities with nuclear weapons” replies the major in a defensive style as if the Admirals comments were somehow incriminating him. “I think we need something for the media to tell the American people” replies General Foster. “Tell them there is a national state of emergency. We are under attack from the USSR, not to worry at this moment in time or something along those lines” said Major Roberts. “That would be the best idea” said General Foster. “No wait” General Williams cuts in. “We shouldn’t tell the media anything, it will only cause mass panic and not make this war any easier.” Every one hears the Generals point of view and decide not to tell the media anything.
“The next topic on the agenda was the calling of help from the allies. Although the time it would take the UN to decide whether or not to act would take forever and they probably not come into the war, as the system is fundamentally flawed as if one of the Permanent members of the UN decided against war then they could not go in, France or another member was defiantly going to vote against action as they are to afraid of another world war. Even though no one wants another world war it is the action that is needed”. Spoke General Williams “Shall we call in our allies then” asks Major Roberts. “I think we should, they don’t want communism at all, anyway, this would help the world to get rid of communists, its up to them if they join or not”, General Williams happily states. “There bound to turn against each member of the organisation one at time anyway so we had better unit under one banner to fight the common enemy” “Well said General Foster, so that’s decided then were calling in the allies, we had better get somebody to ask the allies for help straight away before its to late for there help, so make that our top priority”.
“That’s the meeting concluded, lets go run and coordinate the operation” says General Foster. General Foster starts to dust down his jacket and begins to stroll out of the room to where they are currently controlling everything. “Wait 1 minute I think we should get President Kennedy’s authority” asks General Williams. “Of course” replies General Foster, the General then walks back to his seat around the oak table next to General Edwards.
The Admiral then picks up the red phone, the red phone feeling somewhat cold in his hand worried what the president is going to say. Ring, ring, ring, ring, “President Kennedy here” “Good Morning sir”, “Not really Admiral, the country is under attack from the USSR”. “Well except from that” replies the Admiral now not sounding so cheerful as 24 million US civilians have already been killed. “How are you and the other generals getting on there”, “I call on behalf of us all, we have planned the operation and is just been e-mailed though the secure system to you”. “I got it” “What do you think sir” “Give me a chance to read the thing first”, “Sorry Sir” There is a deadly minutes silence before the president replies. “Yes that seems okay to me you can activate the plan”.
The Admiral covers the end of the phone with the palm of his hand and whispers, “We can activate the plan” There is a sigh of relief from all of the generals. “Have you found a safe landing site yet Admiral?”.” Kind of Sir”. “How do you mean”. “We want you to come land here sir and stay at the command centre”. “That’s sounds like a good idea, I’ll just go check with the pilot”. There is another minutes silence before the President comes back and say “ETA 2 hours, ok Admiral?”, “That’s fine sir look forward to your presence”. “Goodbye Admiral” then the phone goes dead and the Admiral passes forward the information.
Now all of the generals get up, dust off there suits and walk in to the dark room to coordinate the counter attack they call Operation “Melt Down”. Suddenly and from out of the blue a shocked voice came out of the dark room next door. Lights were flashing up in locations on a huge map on the wall, “Major, Generals and Admiral come quick” “What is it son” questioned General Williams. “Seattle, Boston and Guantanamo bay military base have all just been hit with nuclear missiles”.
“Then what’s every one waiting for, stop staring over here get back to work and activate the plan” Shouts General William as if everybody was on the other side of the world he was shouting so loud.
“News from the air force command sir”, one of the men on the telephone says very clearly now waiting for the generals response “Well go ahead then” replies General Williams as if the person he is talking to is completely stupid with no intelligence whatsoever. “The B52’s and F-14’s for support are on route and there ETA is 30 minutes”” Lets just hope the bloody Soviet Union don’t have a back up plan” says Major Roberts with a worried sound in his voice.
Chapter 3
Deep footprints lay in the white snow of Moscow; these were formed by a man of shoe size about 8, the guy walking further ahead clearly the maker of these footprints. He was about 6ft with blue eyes and was wearing a thick brown Russian coat as he was in Russia this was some what not surprising. He looked like a typical person no features you could notice that made him stand out from everyone else. He was a Russian spy of the KGB; under his left arm he carried a brown envelope which you could just read Top Secret. He walked into a small civilian looking building. The KGB leader Yury Andropov would be there “What have you got” Shouts as if in a grumpy mood, the Russian KGB leader Yury Andropov typically his style, “And you are Yury Andropov I presume” “My name does not matter what information have you got on the American response to our declaration of war”. The guy responds with a deep serious voice “They intend to launch nuclear missiles on our major city’s, some of which shall be launched from there missile bases in Turkey and West Germany”.
“That’s rubbish there is no way the Americans would kill so many people” Yury says quickly as if completely dismissing the whole idea. “You can go now” The guy turns around and says “Good bye” there is no response at all from the other guy. Yury Andropov then opens up a dark chestnut draw from his desk and pulls out a silver Makarov, his hand raising the gun towards the guy’s head, the cold trigger now waiting to be pulled, there is a strong sense of tension in the air so thick it could be cut with a knife. The trigger slowly is pulled, there is a click from the Makarov and the bullet flies out of the barrel and hits the guy in the back of the head.
The bullet rips though the skull as a knife would though warm butter. Only a small amount of blood at first the bullet hits the wall behind. Then the blood pours out onto the carpet below the man as he drops dead instantly on the floor. Yury gets up with a cross look on his face, walks over to the dead body on the floor, picks up the brown folder with all of the intelligence information in it , and mutters to himself “Thank you for giving me my hard work, all this work will go down well, with the important members of the communist party especially Nikita Khrushchev” Then looking cross in a sarcastic kind of way “That carpet was brand new and so was the wallpaper which you decided to put a hole in, and now we have blood on the carpet that just won’t do will it now, I’ll have you know, I’ll have a bill sent to you”
He then walks over to the telephone, picks it up and dials a number. He then has a conversation with the guy on the other end of the phone. “Yes comrade Leonid Brezhnev, they intend to launch nuclear missiles on the major cities, Okay I understand that you have to rush off now, the information I have provided you has brought some need for urgent attention” The line went dead. Yury then got up and walked out of the building telling his guard he was leaving, handed him a set of keys and walked off over the same footprints the guy left on the floor when he walked to his last meeting, He was pleased with the mans death, you could see it on his face, his expression a sadistic kind of smile. .
Chapter 4
The outside of Westminster again was a gloomy site due to the downpour of heavy rain. A man of about 5ft 10 slim build with a distinctive bold patch in the middle of his head was staring out the window. Although no one actually knows how his bold patch got there, as he has apparently had it since he was about 15. Some people say he was playing with fire when he was younger. He was called Field Marshall Clark, a voice from the far corner quite deep and worried which sounded like a man who wanted just to get straight to the point, none of this messing around. He was the Prime Minister Mr. Macmillan who said “At least we are agreed on one thing, we have decided the public haven’t got the knowledge to decide, the only problem is you want to go to war, I don’t” Yes but sir we need to support the victim, it is our duty, America has had an act of war commited against them” shouts the Field Marshall with anger and determination to get his point across. “They have enough nuclear warheads to destroy the world several times, what would that do to England?” Quickly replies the P.M.
“Yes I understand this, but after America who then, when will they stop after the entire world has been destroyed?” “Look I just don’t know the answer, if we declare an act of war on them they will destroy us, if we don’t they might destroy us I want to go to the might, there is less chance of us being destroyed” spoke the Prime Minister.
“If you have made your decision then I must leave, I can do know more to change your mind, you have made it quite clear”.
Field Marshal Clark walked out of the room the prime minister and him had had there conversation in, he continued down the long corridor towards the exit. As he reached the exit, he put up his umbrella before looking outside, stepped outside then wondered why everyone was looking at him he soon realised why, for it was no longer raining but a blue sky. Now feeling like a complete idiot he quickly walked off into the distance of the London streets. The Prime minister called for his chauffer and within 5 minutes the black Jaguar with blacked out windows arrived in the front, The Prime Minister stepped inside and drove off towards 10 Downing Street. “Have I made the right choice” The Prime Minister wondered in his head. This decision could change the history of not just the small island of England but the whole world forever. Should any man or woman ever in their life have to make a decision of this scale, so much weight on one mans shoulder.
Ten minutes later.
The Prime Minister’s car pulled up outside of number ten Downing Street with a hoard of photographers waiting outside with questions needing asking. One small woman with blonde hair shouted at the Prime Minister to try and get his attention. “We are live with BBC news, can you tell the nation if we going to declare war on the USSR?” “No I can safely say to all of you I have just returned from a meeting and we have decided that it would be in our nations best interest to remain neutral, to follow the rules of neutrality and to not declare war on the USSR or any other country who are involved in this conflict, That is all I have to say, any other information I will let you know as soon as I know, good day” “Thank you” replied the BBC news reporter, she turned around faced her camera and said “That’s all we have for you now live from downing street, so from me Beth Richards, good night and back to the studio”
Chapter 5
Back in the underground bunker in the United States of America General Foster still sits there twiddling his thumbs waiting to see if the Soviet Union will launch any more nuclear warheads onto American soil. The tension was so thick you could cut the atmosphere with a knife. Sweat was dripping off everyone’s face in the room due a mixture of the heat of the bunker, the tension and the stress of the moment. The smell of the atmosphere was most foul. They have all been in this sweaty room for many hours, so the smell of bodies was more obvious then ever. If anyone had to stay in there much longer they would soon be giving out gas masks. “It cant be good for peoples health if they say soft drinks cause cancer what is this stench doing”. Spoke Major Roberts The red phone on the table rings, every person’s eye’s fix on this one red phone. No one moves, there is now complete silence except for the ringing of the red phone, which seems like 4 hours when it was actually four seconds. Jack answers the phone. A long conversation went on between Jack and President Kennedy on the phone which could have been summed up in 3 simply words like Activate Plan A. Those three words were basically the conversation, and he also commented on why his plane was delayed for an age. Turns out there was a false missile alert, however the president was expected to land in 30 minutes so he would not be making any more calls. He wanted when he landed to see missile one in the air and Nikita Khrushchev with a declaration of war on his desk.
The missiles already ready to launch earlier when they were expecting to have to launch them anyway all it took now was one brave man to “press the magic button”, Which would be a challenge, seeing how pressing this button would send a missile to the edge of space then back down to Moscow, killing millions of innocent people and starting a nuclear war. One brave man General Williams stepped up for the challenge. He walked as if in a slow motion movie, every step going thump… thump… thump…, finally he reached the red button. Just like in the movies moving his hand that felt like a lead weight, with a great flicking action, flipped off the cover, which stops accidental pressing of the button, which would kill millions of people. He then took two steps back, took deep heavy breaths, moved forward very slowly, every one staring thinking,” Have I made the right choice is this right even under orders”. Then he finally gets the guts, everyone watching, all taking a deep breath, which takes every little bit of oxygen out of the room and pressed the button. The room was so quiet you could practically hear the click, as the button pressed onto the motherboard, and the multi million dollar missile flew toward the dark mists of the unknown, soon to be a mass murderer.
Chapter 6
3 years have passed now with little hand to hand conflict. The only real fighting has been in Berlin where Russian troops invaded the west nearly endangering the war by bringing the British into the war. Many of both sides’ major cities have been destroyed by the hail of missiles. This has cost each county a substantial amount of money. The death toll is increasing all the time as the radiation and its effects of the radiation kill more people. However today could be the start of the end? "Can you believe it this is the best thing ever, we are just 3 hours off the final stage to take over of the United States of America. We are now just gradually sailing over the Atlantic." Spoke a young Ryadovoy (Russian equivalent for a private) for the Soviet Union. Then a kaptain (captain) walked into the dull dark room. Steps onto the floor and says "они воюют крепко его не будут легки" ("They will fight hard it will not be easy"). The small stubby kaptain then suddenly flew into the wall. Everyone now in extreme pain as the ship had just flung them to the wall on the other side.
The room lit up red with the flashing sirens and the most annoying noise. Then the captain stands up and shouts out "AMERICAN SUB, BATTLE STATIONS NOW!!!" The Russian frigate with poor defenses against the submarine, now that the first torpedo has damaged the depth charge launcher. The captain rushes towards the bridge where he is needed. He reaches the room which was lit up with all the control panels. Every one was surprisingly calm as they were under attack by an America sub. “Launch torpedo tube 1” shouts a young Leitenant (lieutenant). “Careful with those torpedoes, we’ve only got 4” The reason this ship only had four was from a previous attack. They always said this ship was unlucky. Nearly every operation she has been in, she was attacked.
“Torpedo 1 away sir” calmly spoke the lieutenant who wanted to make a good impression on the kaptain. They were all so calm as if they were expecting this to be the final fight; a last stand. “Ready Torpedo 2” again commanded the Leitenant. You could see the captain was quite contempt just to sit back and let the Leitenant give it his best shot. “Torpedo 1 missed” This time the Leitenant sounded disheartened. “Fire Torpedo 2” “WAIT” Screamed the kaptain, “Incoming torpedo’s” There were 2 torpedoes coming straight at the frigate with no way they could avoid them. The kaptain already knew they were doomed, the torpedoes this time were going to sink this cursed ship. Boom …Boom…, “BREACH” the lieutenant shouted “Abandon ship”
The torpedoes blew holes though the ship’s hull, there was no way they could survive. Every man scrambled up on to deck trying to get in a life boat. The kaptain however stayed behind and coordinated the abandoning of the frigate. This ship now slowly began to sink below the water where it would rest for ever and so would the men who fought in the war so hard, so confident of being, The first man to land on America. To be part of the county that defeats America, and to be members of the only world power, the USSR. These were all dreams but now they would stay dreams. Now that they lay on the bottom of the unforgiving ocean. Some many were fortunate to survive but they would now serve out the rest of the war in a Prisoner of war camp. After an American destroyer found them as the small sub had no space for capturing them.
Chapter 7
Bodies lay deep in the sand, American bodies along side Russian bodies, they all lay here, gradually being washed out into the sea by the tide. Naval vessels of the USSR floated off the east coast. Men pouring onto the beaches all holding there guns, some looked excited, some scared they were all attacking the American fortifications on the beach, all charging, all hoping. One American solider lying at the top of the hill wounded as the Russian men ran over his body, He wondered to himself how this has happened, how the great free and equal country, America is falling to the hands of the brutal communists. “Why did so many Americans die, why did my family die but most of all, why did nobody come to Americas aid when she needed it most of all, nobody helped for now she was in trouble”, He remembered his favorite quote by John Donne
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”
The American solider then took his finally deep breath before a Russian solider shot him and killed him. The soldiers continued to march up onto the American main land where many more battles were to take place. The date was October 1965, the battle was now on many fronts, for the Americans they were being attacked everywhere the capital has changed because Washington had been destroyed, the new capital is Atlanta, and the Russians had now taken nearly all of America, all that was left was a small corner in the south east this stretched from Dallas – Memphis – Columbia and as far south as Houston. America was now nearing the end. Dallas and Memphis were both under attack, they were predicted to hold out for 6 months so it was a waiting game for America, now however it was almost inevitable she was going to be completely invaded. However Houston was also under attack and Houston was about to fall.
Christmas 1965, the only Christmas present the Americans got was the fact that now there city Houston had been taken over, now the last little corner had a major hole in it. Everybody knew it was completely pointless to hold the position of Dallas and Memphis, so every American solider was immediately ordered to defend Atlanta at all costs whatever it took Atlanta would be defended.
So now the finally attack begins the great USSR stops outside of the gates of Atlanta and waits to regroup. The Battle for America is about to begin.
Chapter 8
First came the air strikes with the missiles taking out any key points, they came in huge numbers so the American defences against them had little effect. Huge buildings were destroyed. The city was in ruin, as the tanks began to roll in to their last battle, the Russian artillery opened fire taking out any more key points. Now the battle for Atlanta was about to begin.
Bitter Street fighting took place for several weeks the Americans held on well, they didn’t want to give in without a fight, but the Russians were now receiving reinforcements from the south, the state of Florida had Russian tanks rolling up their roads. The American Generals in Atlanta knew they could not hold on any longer especially now they were on minimum rations and Atlanta was about to fall, they could not survive the Russian attack and no help was arriving from their allies which they had hoped might arrive. So they ask for a peace treaty that would hand over there weaponry and surrender. The Russians agreed to this and so the Americans surrendered. The great free country was not so free any more.
All the Generals were arrested from the command station and sent to Prisoner of war camps. As for the president he went into exile just before the finally assault, he now lives in Ireland with his family. On August the 22nd 1966, The Russian leader Nikita
Khrushchev delivered his message in 6 different languages across the globe “ The only world power, the Soviet Union has fought hard and lost many men but we have captured the last city of America and we now rule America”
On the same day the British P.M walked into the houses of parliament stood up and in his opening speech delivered this message to the British people “I feel this country made the correct choice to stay out of the war which America and Russia were part, of however I speak on behalf of everyone, we are deeply sorry that America fell and that so many people lost there lives, I can assure you we shall try and avoid war but if by the most unfortunate events war is declared we shall fight together and hard and we shall remain a free country.”
In 1970 Russia still has never declared war on anyone else but still has control over America. However America is beginning to fight for independence just like they did against the British, but they do not know whether they will succeed or not, the fate of America again is in play.
