2024

The Beginning-2

Letters flew back and forth from Washington, D.C. to Moscow. The president called Prime Minister Putin at least a dozen times to try and persuade him it was not the United States that had done this. Putin was adamant that President Hillary Clinton, the only woman president in the history of the United States of America, was responsible for the murder of thousands of Russian troops. President Clinton did everything she could to try and persuade Prime Minister Putin, the long time dictator of Russia, it was not true. He was unconvinced. More, he thought she was lying to him.

Russia, which had long been building new ICBM's, began to place units around the country on alert. These units were known to the U.S. in part but there were several new forces in the north central part of Russia holding concealed ICBMs capable of hitting the U.S. after flying over the North Pole.

Without a lot of publicity, the military of the United States quietly went from Defcon 1, basically a peacetime status, to Defcon 2. The anti-missile batteries that had been made into mobile units began to be placed surreptitiously in areas where warheads might pass overhead. The Navy began to maneuver its missile firing ships in ways that would present Russia with extremely dangerous potentials should Russia decide to do something foolish.

All the “boomers” that were left in the Navy were put to sea on an emergency basis and headed into areas where the Soviet Navy with its rusted out attack submarines could not touch them. The air forces of both countries began to arm their aircraft fully, to keep them fueled and ready to fly, and on some of them like the B-2 Stealth Bombers nuclear weapons were loaded. The B-2's began to fly training sorties out of Diego Garcia that lasted many hours. The B-2's crossed over much of Africa without entering into the air space of any unfriendly country. They carried bombs so destructive that their explosive results could not be adequately described.

China, seeing all these military preparations and worrying some of the missiles from the U.S. or Russia, or both, might be targeted in China, put its armed forces, including its nuclear missile units, on high alert as well. North Korea, as bellicose as ever, mouthed the usual phrases of being able to attack U.S. cities with its ICBMs. China was completely at sea over the reasons the U.S. and Russia were going “nuclear” all of a sudden. Yes, there had been an outbreak of Ebola in Crimea but it could have come about in a hundred different ways the Chinese thought. They were not prepared, as were the Russians, to toss the blame for the ebola occurrence squarely onto the shoulders of the U.S. The premier kept asking his political advisors, “How did this happen?” None of them seemed to have an answer.

But this is a little ahead of where it should be I guess. I was, when all this began, a member of the State Department. My name is William De Young. I was at one time an employee of an Undersecretary of State. What does that mean? Nothing really. It didn't give me information that others didn't have. It didn't tell me anything about Kalil or Falik. I guess I was a bit of a greenhorn as well. My graduation from Thomas Jefferson had taken place only about a year prior to the world melting down. I am thirty five years old. I had been working for Secretary of State Elizabeth Warren since she ascended to the position from her status as a Senator from the State of Massachusetts.

I can tell you we were scrambling around like crazy to try and find out who the hell had let off a weapon that included the Ebola virus as part of its destructive material. It still amazes me anyone, a human being, would let loose ebola. Have you ever seen a person die of Ebola virus, or any form of hemorrhagic fever? It is devastating. It is nasty looking. It is a mess. There is blood everywhere. Thankfully the victims were isolated quickly; well quickly being a word of art here because it took several days for recognition of the type of virus to occur. Then the victims were quickly isolated, proper protective clothing and breathing apparatus were used by the doctors and the spread of the disease was seemingly controlled to the point no new cases were being seen. But all through the time of the outbreak stuff was floating across all our desks in State like crazy. The one reaction I had to all this perhaps some did not was I began to think it was really possible for a nuclear exchange to occur between the United States and Russia.

When someone in the world gets a little crazy the rest of the world tends to react and most often their reaction is negative. Saudi Arabia, for example, threatened to turn off the oil spigot if there were another outbreak of this kind caused by the U.S. Caused by the U.S.? How the hell did they come to their conclusion? I personally spoke with a man whose job it was to operate the pipelines from the refineries to the shipping docks. He fairly screamed at me we in the U.S. were trying to kill off the world population of Muslims by the use of viral bombs. I said in return, “Sir, if I could confess to you to it was true and if it would be the truth, I would do so. But it is not the truth. The truth is the Russians don't know or understand where the viral attack came from and neither do we. Because the area is so tightly cordoned off in order to avoid new outbreaks we cannot even get in there to search for the weapon used to deliver the virus. But please, sir, we in the U.S. did not do this.”

Letters went to every Prince, every Emir holding a position in the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen; you name the person, we communicated with them. We constantly tried to reinforce the idea that we had nothing to do with the Ebola outbreak. It seemed as though we were speaking in tongues or to deaf people. No one believed us. The wrangle over Crimea and Ukraine going on since 2014 made us appear to be the likely culprit in the Ebola attack.

Kalil, seeing the responses of the Saudis and other oil rich Arab countries merely smiled to himself. He sent messages to his group of black shirted members of the ISIS forces. At least he sent letters to those whose lives had not ended in the bombing of their caravan. The letters told his brethren a new day was coming, to be prepared and ready to attack, attack, attack. Kalil's plans were diabolical indeed. His Sword of Fallujah organized fifteen truck bombs which would be sent into the domains of Maliki and the Shia in Baghdad and Muqtadr Al Sadr and his Shia militias at the same time. Kalil's spies had done their work well. The truck bombs were meant to trigger additional explosions from war materials hidden by the Shia in various places. The effect, if achieved, would be disastrous for the Shia militias and would make it possible for the Sunni to triumph with “little opposition.”

Then slowly things eased up a little as the Ebola virus ran its course in the sick and isolated area in which it was now located. Then, one strange and horrible day, the world went to hell in a hurry. At about two o'clock in the afternoon Washington time a nuclear explosion occurred in Donetsk, sometimes called the capital of the eastern Ukraine. It devastated the entire city, killing tens of thousands instantly, destroying age old buildings as well as those newly constructed.

The government was not in session at the time, but all its representatives and officials lived within a ten mile radius of the capital building. They were killed, all of them. The power of the bomb was not huge by comparison to what would follow but it leveled an area of approximately thirty miles in every direction in which a mountain didn't slow the progress of the blast.

All totaled well over a million Ukrainian people were killed or injured in the blast. And in the blast and fire effects of the bomb many thousands of ethnic Russians and disguised Russian soldiers died as well. The troops had been surreptitiously taking part in the separatist efforts of the ethnic Russians in the Donetsk area. There were well over ten thousand Russian troops involved. Most of the troops were killed.

The “bloom” of the nuclear explosion was seen on every satellite within range. Some satellites had been placed in orbit by the Russians. Some had been placed there by the Chinese, the Japanese, the French and NATO via the French Ariadne series of launch vehicles and of course many had been placed there by the U.S. Some went dark within seconds after the explosion as a result of their components not being protected from the possibility of an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) effect. Most of those were older and most belonged to the Soviets or the French and NATO.

The French, the British, the Germans, the Italians (nobody really expected them to fight if it came down to it), the Polish, among many other countries, were left pretty much in the dark as to what was going on between Russia and the U.S. But knowing the Americans were on high alert the French and British nuclear forces, as well as those of Israel, India and Pakistan were all alerted as precautionary measures.

Instantly the U.S. forces went to Defcon 3, nuclear attack alert and status for response by every means possible if someone might have the temerity to launch on the U.S. One country did, that being North Korea. None of the nuclear forces of the U.S. were launched initially since the Korean threat was so remote. No one could believe the Chinese would arm the Koreans with missiles which could reach the U.S. The response, if any were to occur from the United States, could be managed quite well without those assets.

A missile frigate sitting off the coast of Japan in the South China Sea saw the North Korean launch right away and launched an anti-missile in return. The Korean missile was destroyed at about 80,000 feet above the earth in a massive explosion that triggered the non-nuclear explosives on board the Korean bird. The Chinese radar systems had seen the launch, saw the second missile coming from the frigate which they routinely shadowed and saw the explosion of the two coming together.

A Chinese battery commander who was a nervous type anyway and who secretly admired the dictator of North Korea, ordered his anti-ship battery to fire at the frigate. At first his battery men looked at each other. They all knew this would constitute an act of war against the United States. But they were soldiers after all and they obeyed their orders. Three Chinese missiles of the same type as the French Exocets of earlier years now called the Kong Di 88 were launched by this battery. The radar units “painting” U.S.S. Glenn remained on, as did the television cameras on these missiles. The frigate responded instantly with newer HARM type missiles which would attack the radar but would cluster bomb the entire area as well.

The frigate, named the U.S.S. John Glenn, saw the launches from the mainland, knew they were being “painted” and fired up by radar and heat seeking missiles also using television capability. The frigate had defenses designed just for the purpose of bringing down the kind of missiles the Chinese fired. All three were splashed before reaching the frigate by missile or gunfire. The Chinese battery had to leave their radar on in order to guide their missiles and the battery was destroyed completely with substantial loss of life when the officer who had ordered the Frigate be fired upon failed to recognize that his facility was about to be attacked.