Short Story: ATOMIC WAR-THE LAST FIGHT

All rights reserved copyright Daniel Schröder

 

 

Translated from German into English with www.deepl.com Translator

 
 

 

 


 

Eva was startled. David also almost threw up. The body had been totally crushed. There was blood everywhere. The intestines were spilling out of the stomach area. Parts of the intestines were lying on the road. On the torso one saw the traces of the tires. The rib cage was dented.

"David," Eva screamed as they were about to drive over it. She screamed in panic from horror. Also David it turned the stomach. He almost threw up when he saw the body. Eva began to cry in agitation.

David tried to suppress his emotions and concentrated on driving over it. Slowly he drove over it. He tried to avoid driving over the hull as much as possible, but the body parts were scattered around. When it slightly lifted one of the rear tires, he just thought shit.

Shit like that. Slowly he drove on and then accelerated. At the thought that there were now possibly body parts on the rear wheel, David almost froze the blood in his veins. A terrible thought that made him shiver.

"You can open your eyes again," David said, trying to look normal and not let on anything.








The Thompsons, meanwhile, were driving along a country road. David tried to avoid the larger towns as best he could. He knew those would be the most likely targets. His goal was to reach a small fishing port near the place where he had grown up.

They then saw how in the far distance London was hit by several nuclear weapons. Because of the good weather, they could see several mushroom clouds growing in the sky above the city. They could also see more mushroom clouds in the far distance, creating a picture of horror over destroyed major English cities. First they saw a bright flash, so bright that it outshone the sun, and then they saw this monster growing into the sky. The fireball grew upward and began to increase in size. After a few minutes it had reached its maximum height and was only growing to the side. Fortunately, they were far enough away. There was no danger at that distance that they could go blind. But it was terrible, just the idea of how many people were dead there now. Drivers stopped briefly and got out. They looked at the mushroom clouds. David also stopped and got out. At high altitude he saw Russian bombers and fighter planes. They were engaged in a battle with British fighter planes. One of the bombers, a Tupolev Tu-95 with four piston engine engines, exploded at high altitude. The other bombers caught fire. Hit, those trailed a dark plume of smoke. They crashed. Some who were standing there cheered.

"Yes, show it to the Russians. Give it to them," one shouted.

He saw one of the bombers go into a spin and one of the wings break off and it plunged steeply downward. Another bomber came closer and closer to them. Some reflexively took a few steps back.

"Oh, damn, that thing's going to hit near here," said one.

"Run," yelled one. Persons standing there ran away. They ran across the street to the other field. Some stumbled. The Thompsons, too, ran.


About three hundred and fifty meters from the road, the bomber bored into a brown field. The fuselage folded up like an accordion. There was a loud explosion. Wreckage flew about. Some were still running. But then some stopped and looked around. A fire blazed near the wreckage. Residual fuel burned with a plume of deep black smoke.

The Thompsons were also standing in the field, looking toward the wreckage.

"I hope they were on their way back and didn't have any more nukes on board," one said anxiously.

"Bombs like that can take a lot of punishment. Even in peacetime there were crashes with nuclear weapons," David said.

Slowly they walked back to the road where their car was. Small pieces of wreckage lay scattered on the road. They got back into the car and drove on.







Many major European cities and NATO bases were destroyed in the Russian attack. As the American bombers also crossed the border into Russia, Russia launched several hundred short-range missiles and ICBMs from northern Russia near Scandinavia and southwestern Russia near Ukraine.

For its part, the United States launched about six hundred nuclear warheads from missile silos, most of them located in the U.S. heartland and north, and from nuclear submarines in the Atlantic and Pacific against Russia and 1400 against targets in China. A satellite of the Americans, which, despite agreements, should not exist, launches a salvo of seven nuclear warheads intended to destroy Russian missile silos in Siberia. With the launch of ICBMs, the Russians also launched ICBMs from missile bases and nuclear submarines against the United States and Canada. For their part, the Chinese launched their ICBMs against the US. Hundreds of Chinese nuclear warheads aimed at the USA were on their way. They did not shoot any more against Europe, because Russia, which is so close to NATO there, will destroy them anyway. They shot less than they would have done if there had not also been NATO war against Russia. The Chinese saved a lot of ICBMs that were very safe in the 10,000 kilometer or so tunnel bunker complex that the Chinese had been building for decades.

That tunnel-bunker complex was also called, the Great Chinese Underground Wall - THE GREAT CHINESE UNDERGROUNDWALL. It was not possible for the USA to destroy that huge tunnel complex. About 1.5 million Chinese soldiers and civilians were already there seeking shelter in the tunnel complex. In that tunnel-bunker complex, it was also possible for the Chinese to build nuclear weapons and ICBM missiles. Since the seventies, the Chinese were already building on that strategic tunnel complex. They had started because of the threat from the Soviet Union. China feared at that time a Soviet attack with nuclear weapons.




Missiles hit all over the USA. All airports and all large cities were destroyed. All naval bases and army bases were reduced to rubble. Also, several Russian nuclear weapons struck the Panama Canal, destroying this all-important canal forever. The Russians had about 2.7 times more nuclear weapons at their disposal than the Americans, partly because they were not so careful about the agreements they had once made. The largest nuclear weapon, a Tsar, which at fifty-seven megatons was about three times more powerful than the most powerful American nuclear weapon, struck New York and another struck Los Angeles. The conflagration was the largest ever to sweep over the surface of the earth. All life evaporated within a radius of many kilometers. The mushroom cloud reached an altitude of sixty-four kilometers. For comparison, the peak height of the explosion cloud of a nuclear weapon in the kiloton range is only a few kilometers. The fireball had a diameter of seven kilometers. Within a radius of thirty-five kilometers everything was totally destroyed. Even at a distance of 270 kilometers, people still felt the heat radiation.


Europe, the USA, the major cities of China and Russia lay in ruins. The US president was dead. He was in the bunker under the White House. When the capital had been hit by Russian nuclear weapons, parts of the bunker ceiling had collapsed. He was standing there next to one of the support pillars because he had been advised to do so. But the concrete ceiling had collapsed and buried him underneath.

The Russians fired more nuclear weapons at Europe. They also shot a tank corridor from Russia through Poland, Germany, and into Paris. Several dozen nuclear weapons struck like a string of pearls to make a corridor. To make a breach in case they would send troops to Europe later.

In the whole NATO area in Europe there was not a single intact airport left. Also in the USA and in Canada all airports had been destroyed. In the USA there were only about fourteen cities with more than 100,000-200,000 inhabitants that were undestroyed.

 

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