Date/Time: 20
October, 1975 / 01:00:00 Zulu
Location: Kola Peninsula
Duration: 6 hours
Introduction
The line has been crossed: Soviet submarine-launched ballistic
missiles have detonated in the heart of New York and downtown Boston
Mass, incinerating over 40,000 residents in just 15 seconds. More than 50
percent
of the population living within a 1-mile radius of the explosions is either
dead or gravely injured.
NATO officials were horrified. But
they were also confused: Once the launched missiles were detected, an all-out Soviet
nuclear strike was expected. Instead, only 6 SLBMs were launched and no other launches were detected.
What is going on?
Premier Leonid Brezhnev has been on the hot line to Air Force One and the
US President, the Soviet Premier pleading it was a rogue SSBN which had disobeyed
orders and the launch was not authorised.
The whole world is on a knife
edge. Is the Cold War suddenly going to get a whole lot warmer?