June 10th, 1999: the first nuclear war has just started

June 10th, 1999: the first nuclear war has just begun is the French title of Arc Light , a Techno-thriller of the American writer. Eric Lampton Harry appeared in 1994.

It left in France to the editions Robert Laffont in 1995 or it was translated by Jean Rosenthal and into version pocket in the Pocket collection under the n°10116 (580 pages).

Short summary of the history

The Popular republic of China had tried to seize the Siberia before three years and having been blocked by the Armed forces of the federation of Russia, one finds oneself in a War of position in Mandchourie.

The June 10th 1999, to resolve the situation, the Stavka, the Russian staff decides to launch an offensive tactical nuclear power with the explosion of 169 nuclear warheads on the face and the bases strategic Chinese.

At the same time, the armed North-Korean invades the South Korea involving a general mobilization of the the United States.

The Rasov general who had managed to block the Chinese army and had become de facto the leader of Russia warns the United States of the attack to announce to them that these missiles are not intended to them.

The President of the United States of America informs the Gouvernement Chinese of the imminence of the attack thinking that this one was going to negotiate to stop a disaster.

At the same time, an officer Russian extremist, the Zorine general who incited the government North-Korean to start the attack against the South and which was not with the current of the offensive against China tries a Coup d'etat to the the Kremlin and liquid the staff, his objective was also to use the atomic weapon in China and to ask for the withdrawal of the American forces in Europe of the East.

When 4 intercontinental ballistic missiles Chinese fall down on the area of Moscow (without too large damage, the anti-missile system Galosh having been effective), the Putsch ist believes in an American attack and, being seized the bag of the codes, launches a massive nuclear attack with more than one thousand of nuclear weapons launched by ground-to-ground missiles on military targets to the United States such Cheyenne Mountain destroyed by tens of loads of 25 Mégatonne S but Washington and the town of Norfolk in Virginia inter alia is touched by radioactive repercussions mortals.

It is the beginning of the Third World war.

Retort same order of the United States which had passed in Defcon 3 since the warning of Razov on Russian strategic sites with the use of their bomber S and their intercontinental Ballistic missiles.

A cease-fire takes place after the Rasov general has took again the control of the situation in his country.

Human losses due to the Russian attack of 649 megatons and American counterpart of 1 092 megatons reach approximately 7 million Mort S on each side on the blow and short-term.

In spite of the arrest and the execution of the putschists, the American people shout revenge and the troops intended for Korea leave in Poland and Slovakia to prepare the invasion of Russia.

The US government is transferred in the Bunker from Mount Weather in Virginia.

The US president which did not want a war is relieved by the Congrès of the United States and replaced by the vice-president, a ecologist California N which lined up with the pressure of the Public opinion.

The goal of war is to dismantle the totality of the Russian nuclear arsenal.

Here the plan of the operation Saber Avenger , drawn from a plan of the Years 1980, the Doctrines Lehman of the Secretary of State to the Navy John Lehman during the administration of Ronald Reagan intended to carry the war since the Pacific Ocean to the heart of the Siberia: the objective is to cut the Transsibérien by air raids, to unload US Navy and Infanterie on the Russian peaceful coast, to neutralize the District-general army of the Far East and to seize the naval Base of Vladivostok. In coordination with airborne Operations and that allow the control of all Siberia the East of a line active of the Mer of Kara in north until Tomsk and Novossibirsk in the south, is approximately half of continental Russia.

The objective of the forces deployed in Poland and Slovakia - either 3 Army corps, 3 Regiment S of light armoured tanks, 6 divisions armor-plated and of mechanized infantry (or 2/3 of the US Army with 370 000 men, as much for the navy and aviation), 12 squadrons of hunting of the US Air Force more forces of the European coalition - the United Kingdom, Italy, Eastern Europe, Turkey, etc: the 1st army corps of the British Army, 3 divisions and 2 alpine brigades of the Italian Armed and 13 divisions with Eastern Europe and to sink to cross the Ukraine and the neutral Bielorussia, to engage and destroy on the ground the Russian army then to capture Moscow before the first snows of the Hiver is to traverse 1000 km.

The France and the Germany not having wanted to engage, that which with conduit with very serious diplomatic crispations and the dissolution of NATO, replaced by the TEAM (Treated military Europe-America) gathering the nations united.

The Canada unloads a brigade to release the Iceland fallen with the hands from the Russians.

The 6 {{E}} fleet of the US Navy and the Italian fleet engage in Black Sea to destroy the Russian Marine there and to launch there attacks against oil installations in the the Caucasus.

The June 17th 1999, a show of force of USAF exploding a nuclear weapon with high-altitude above the North Korea decides this one to withdraw its forces of the South and to cease the hostilities.

On June 25th and 26th, a Russian attack is pushed back the day starting of the general offensive.

Russia sent meanwhile a Army corps to occupy the Baltic States.

July 13rd after 16 days of combat and 11 316 killed, 21 746 wounded and 516 missings in the American rows, the Russian Frontière is crossed, that is to say a progression of 50 km per day.

July 19th, the 82e American airborne division by air, the 101 {{E}} by helicopters since ships, the Special forces by submarines and of the marine British and American unload in the Péninsule of Cola to form a Tête of bridge intended to launch an offensive on Saint-Pétersbourg with the assistance of the Finland and airborne divisions and amphibian Polish. The islands Kouriles pass under Japanese control.

July 20th, the Russian general-president threatens to atomize all the American cities with the underwater component of his nuclear arsenal which survived the first striking if Moscow is attacked, causing a fall of 20 % of the Productivity and an exodus of the big cities in the United States.

August 15th, united are with the doors of Toula to 80 km in the south of Moscow, to 80 km of Khabarovsk where the HQ of the Russian army of the Far East is and cross the Samarga river along the Trans-Siberian one and in Petrozavodsk, to 200 km in the north of Pétersbourg Saint.

The Russian army, with court of Fuel, became static.

August 24th, Podolsk to 25 km in the south of the suburbs of Moscow falls to the hands from the 3rd regiment from light armoured tanks from Ve Corps.

The capital is encircled at this distance in one week.

August 31st, is started the beginning of the offensive intended to take the city while using inter alia chemical weapons at the same time as an air and sea operation must destroy the fleet of Russian SNLE.

After adventures like the strategic shooting of the Russian missiles sea-to-ground then the neutralization of the nuclear warhead before their explosion by a secret code, the cease-fire is signed the evening even thanks to an American emissary, the to advise American with the national security, former member of the Defense Intelligence Agency which was a friend of a close relation of the Russian president.

The American military losses are of 42 000 killed and 82 000 wounded in 2 months of intensive war.

The denuclearization of Russia is started, Moscow is occupied for 5 years and US Army interposes vis-a-vis the popular Armée with Chinese release while riots of the hunger burst in Russia.

Main characters

Greg Lambert: old agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency and to advise with the national security of the President
David Chandler: major in the Reserve army of the United States
Pavel Filipov: helps of the general Razov
Mélissa Chandler: lawyer and wife of David Chandler, were confined of its first child the day of the nuclear attack
Général Razov: directing from Russia and commander-in-chief of the Russian army
David Livingston: chair of the United States the beginning of the account
Monk: Sergeant of the USMC

External bonds

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