The Ashes of the 26th
This is my first timeline. So be gentle. Please comment.
Map of the World Pre Purge
September 14th 1983 Col. Stanislaw Petrov is relived of duty by Col. Ivan Akrimanov at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, which monitors for a US missile attack on the Soviet Union. He is reassigned to a bunker near Brest.
The Only known picture of Col.,and later General, and Duke Stanislav Petrov
The Serpukhov-15 bunker's computers indicate that a US missile is heading toward the Soviet Union. At first, Akrimanov reasons that a computer error has occurred, since it is only one missile and it doesn't make sense that the US would launch one single missile in an attack. Questions about the reliability of the satellite detection system have been raised in the past, so he dismisses the warning as a false alarm, concluding that there was no actual missile.
Very shortly though, the computers indicate that a second missile has been launched, then a third, a fourth and and then a fifth. Akrimanov, a faithful reader of "Pravda", where he had read much of the "warmongering of the American President Regan", now feels as that the attack was real. He telephones the headquarters of the Strategic Rocket Forces and tells them that his computers show that a massive US attack is underway.
Yuri Andropov is awakened by his staff and rushed to an evacuation helicopter standing by outside the Kremlin. He is evacuated along with key members of the Politburo and their families. On the way he is informed by the generals that they have "reliable intel" that the Americans are launching a first-strike at the Soviet Union. They recommend a full retaliatory strike. Andropov, frail and stunned by the news, nods and gives the launch codes to the SRF commanders.
Yuri Andropov
A couple of minutes later, at over 300 missile bunkers, a fateful order is given…launch everything. Nearly 1100 Soviet ICBMs in staggered order are launched at the United States, American bases in Europe and other NATO and allied Nations, and in a plan never publicly revealed, at the People's Republic of China(who is believed to be involved in the Capitalist attack). At NORAD launch detection satellites detect the launch from the Soviet Union. It is apparently a Soviet FIRST-strike and President Reagan and his cabinet (and families) are immediately awoken and rushed to "Marine-1 and 2", to be evacuated to a Air Force 1 to be evacuated to a military bunker. En route, the President is informed by Secretary of Defense Weinberger and the NORAD generals that the launch is confirmed and that it was total. Reagan gives the launch codes and orders a full retaliatory strike with everything they got.
President Reagan
As Andropov's helicopter is reaches the Kremlin's evacuation bunker forty miles outside of Moscow, he receives a chilling report. The first "projected" missile has reached its target in Murmansk....but no detonation has occurred. Quickly checking, Soviet generals discover that the first targets that were supposed to have been destroyed minutes earlier, showed no incoming warheads and no detonation. Andropov suffers a massive stroke and dies as he realized he has just started World War III on a false alarm. A minute later the first Soviet missiles detonates in Beijing, China, followed quickly by one at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. over a period of nearly two hours, a estimated 5000 nuclear weapons detonate all across the World. NATO commanders are ordered to immediately launch tactical Pershing-I missiles at Soviet tank yards, and Warsaw Pact commanders respond with the launch of their Pioneer missiles.
China, caught by surprise by the Soviet attack, able to launch 85% of their weapons at the USSR. Most Chinese missiles struck cities and military bases that have already been destroyed by American missiles and bombers. They also launch their missiles at India (deemed to be assisting the USSR). In retaliation India launches it nukes at Iran, Pakistan, and China.
Neither American, Soviet, and other Allied citizens, nor other non-combatants, received significant advance warning of the attack. Some major cities did issue alerts and, while local mayors and fire chiefs were scrambling to initiate disaster protocols, they were either destroyed or damaged in the attack.
A recreation of a nuke going off in the city of New York
EMP’s from airbursted weapons destroy some 75% of the electronics across the world. Most radios, televisions, telephones systems, and computers were rendered useless.
The initial death toll following the first hours of conflict was estimated at 2 billion people...from the United States and Canada, to Cuba, across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom, Western and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, Korea Australia, India, Pakistan, Iran, and various Central and Southern American states.
At day's end, a black pall of smoke, dust, and radioactive ash covered most the world. The event becomes known to the histories as the Great Purge, or Doomsday.
Map of the places hit by Nuclear weapons
This is my first timeline. So be gentle. Please comment.
Map of the World Pre Purge
September 14th 1983 Col. Stanislaw Petrov is relived of duty by Col. Ivan Akrimanov at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, which monitors for a US missile attack on the Soviet Union. He is reassigned to a bunker near Brest.
The Only known picture of Col.,and later General, and Duke Stanislav Petrov
The Serpukhov-15 bunker's computers indicate that a US missile is heading toward the Soviet Union. At first, Akrimanov reasons that a computer error has occurred, since it is only one missile and it doesn't make sense that the US would launch one single missile in an attack. Questions about the reliability of the satellite detection system have been raised in the past, so he dismisses the warning as a false alarm, concluding that there was no actual missile.
Very shortly though, the computers indicate that a second missile has been launched, then a third, a fourth and and then a fifth. Akrimanov, a faithful reader of "Pravda", where he had read much of the "warmongering of the American President Regan", now feels as that the attack was real. He telephones the headquarters of the Strategic Rocket Forces and tells them that his computers show that a massive US attack is underway.
Yuri Andropov is awakened by his staff and rushed to an evacuation helicopter standing by outside the Kremlin. He is evacuated along with key members of the Politburo and their families. On the way he is informed by the generals that they have "reliable intel" that the Americans are launching a first-strike at the Soviet Union. They recommend a full retaliatory strike. Andropov, frail and stunned by the news, nods and gives the launch codes to the SRF commanders.
Yuri Andropov
A couple of minutes later, at over 300 missile bunkers, a fateful order is given…launch everything. Nearly 1100 Soviet ICBMs in staggered order are launched at the United States, American bases in Europe and other NATO and allied Nations, and in a plan never publicly revealed, at the People's Republic of China(who is believed to be involved in the Capitalist attack). At NORAD launch detection satellites detect the launch from the Soviet Union. It is apparently a Soviet FIRST-strike and President Reagan and his cabinet (and families) are immediately awoken and rushed to "Marine-1 and 2", to be evacuated to a Air Force 1 to be evacuated to a military bunker. En route, the President is informed by Secretary of Defense Weinberger and the NORAD generals that the launch is confirmed and that it was total. Reagan gives the launch codes and orders a full retaliatory strike with everything they got.
President Reagan
As Andropov's helicopter is reaches the Kremlin's evacuation bunker forty miles outside of Moscow, he receives a chilling report. The first "projected" missile has reached its target in Murmansk....but no detonation has occurred. Quickly checking, Soviet generals discover that the first targets that were supposed to have been destroyed minutes earlier, showed no incoming warheads and no detonation. Andropov suffers a massive stroke and dies as he realized he has just started World War III on a false alarm. A minute later the first Soviet missiles detonates in Beijing, China, followed quickly by one at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. over a period of nearly two hours, a estimated 5000 nuclear weapons detonate all across the World. NATO commanders are ordered to immediately launch tactical Pershing-I missiles at Soviet tank yards, and Warsaw Pact commanders respond with the launch of their Pioneer missiles.
China, caught by surprise by the Soviet attack, able to launch 85% of their weapons at the USSR. Most Chinese missiles struck cities and military bases that have already been destroyed by American missiles and bombers. They also launch their missiles at India (deemed to be assisting the USSR). In retaliation India launches it nukes at Iran, Pakistan, and China.
Neither American, Soviet, and other Allied citizens, nor other non-combatants, received significant advance warning of the attack. Some major cities did issue alerts and, while local mayors and fire chiefs were scrambling to initiate disaster protocols, they were either destroyed or damaged in the attack.
A recreation of a nuke going off in the city of New York
EMP’s from airbursted weapons destroy some 75% of the electronics across the world. Most radios, televisions, telephones systems, and computers were rendered useless.
The initial death toll following the first hours of conflict was estimated at 2 billion people...from the United States and Canada, to Cuba, across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom, Western and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, Korea Australia, India, Pakistan, Iran, and various Central and Southern American states.
At day's end, a black pall of smoke, dust, and radioactive ash covered most the world. The event becomes known to the histories as the Great Purge, or Doomsday.
Map of the places hit by Nuclear weapons
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