A Prelude To War

JAG/Sims - The Mushroom Cloud Chronicles

Toshio: It's a frightening prospect to have to realize that your world is about to end because a group of politicians can't be bothered to work things out at the negotiation table. I retired to Sunset Valley after serving in the Navy and this is what I have to look forward to? A life of nuclear devastation just because some politician got a burr up his rear about something another politician said or did.

Harm: This wasn't what I signed up for.

Sturgis: Yeah, me neither

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Keeter: World's gonna end. Might as well par-TAY!!! Right guys? uh...guys...? Anybody agree with me?

Meg: I think if the balloons go up, we're all going to be singing another tune, we need to realize that survival is the key in this. We have to go deep underground and build a shelter; one where we can all survive.

Fiona: All of us wondered if the sunset that we saw was the last sunset that we would ever see. I wasn't on the world news beat, but I heard plenty about it from my co-workers in the past few weeks leading up to the invasion of Simkraine by Simsia and who knows if the Chinese will jump in with their nukes. All I know is that if it wasn't for Tosh and his friends; we'd be taking our chances with the falling bombs. I don't know if Simdonia will be some place that we recognize when we emerge from our bunker.

Our bunker isn't much, but at least it's something that will protect us in the midst of this insanity.

Fiona: It was a beautiful sunset...and we found out later that it also was the last that we would ever see on the surface of Simdonia and Sunset Valley as we heard a rumble at 0735 and the bunker shook as if it were in a tremblor. Luckily for us, we weren't at the surface to see the flash, if there was one. We don't know what hit us, but it had to be a bomb of some kind. Whether it was a nuke, I don't know...but whatever it was it killed the people and left much of the surrounding area intact.

Fiona: We later heard that it was a low yield nuclear weapon that carried low radiation and killed most of the people with the blast-wave, hence the reason the trees are still standing. The LYLR-N weapon was a hush-hush project that our side has also been working on according to the Simdonian military but their side got to it first and we paid the price.

Evidently it had been fired with an SS-N-32. The yield was estimated at 150Kt. We don't know how many people are dead or dying and it is hard to fathom the casualty total. The Creator help us all...