DEFCON 2, THE WAR IS EMINENT (PART 1)

October 1962

United States Strategic Air Command has moved the American Military to Defense Condition 2, the DefCon 2, one step away to the Nuclear War. Each one of them in the American Military have targets, Fighters, Bombers, Battle Ships, Cruise Missile Batteries, Paratroopers, every military organism has targeted to somewhere in that small island.

In US as well as in Moscow, accusations and denials has been happening. The Soviets were adamant about the current situation, to the Hell Freeze Level. So do the Americans. The US Invasion Forces are deployed for a massive attack, whole at Sea, in the land and in Air. The Nuclear arsenals has landed into the hands of Captains and Majors.

So far, landed Soviets were not admissible to the US. The tickle under the nose is too much for them. So they started reacting. The attention of the world has become into the small island nation in the western hemisphere, Cuba, where the whole nation has mobilized to protect against the eminent US invasion. 

In White House as well as in Kremlin, there were lack of communication and lack of sleep. The question was 'Whos incharge of the situation, Cuba or Soviet ?'. There was no answer because nobody wanted to take incharge of it in Moscow and they want to confuse the US without it. That was the strategy in the early 1996 and US failed to understand it. But now, in the mid of October, the situation is different. United Stated wanted to hear that answer of that question, from both of them !

In US as well as in Cuba, there were boards displaying information about the 'Hiding Chambers' and precautionary methods of a possible 'Air Raid'. Mock drills from the forces as well as authorities and food storage warnings has issued national level, in both countries. One difference, people were angry in United States but the people in Cuba, were started worrying about the US Airforce Bomber Squadrons. They were become panic. They started dreaming about the Death Eye of that Golden Eagle.

The world is still remembering it as, The Cuban Missile Crisis, the worst stand-off readiness in the history of US Military Forces, DefCon 2, the war is eminent.

In the early April 1996

When Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev and defense minister Marshal Malinowski were walking on the shores of the Black Sea looking across the other side, Turkey, a US backed, NATO allied nation. They were discussing about the US, nuclear missiles in the Turkish territory, targeting straight to Moscow. Khrushchev was bit tight in his thoughts and face, about the next strategic movement against this Hippocratic American action, 15 Jupiter Cruise Missiles, armed with a Nuclear War-Heads. 

Moreover, the Soviets strategic points were all surrounded by the US-NATO allies, 15 missiles in Turkey, 30 more in Italy and 64 in Britain. But most threatening of all, more than 1600 numbers of Long Range Strategic Bombers (LRSB) and 200 Intercontinental Continental  Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), which can strike over the Soviet Union anytime, which gives the Americans a strategic advantage over the Soviet as well as their allies, in the Cold War era. 

For Khrushchev this was unfortunate, despite the strategic disadvantage about the Nuclear and other weaponry arsenal, the Soviet Union is surrounded by US and NATO military bases, where in United States, the Americans were free from any threats like this. 

But there was a ray of hope for him. The only Russian ally in western hemisphere, The Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro, the only communist fighter under the American nose. Although Cuba also can be lost from the ally-list at any moment, because of their own struggles and sustainability factors because of the US backed invasions and troubles, but both the nations has strong political tie-up. The Americans are tried to over-through Castro, politically as well as Physically from 1964 onwards, through small infiltrations, anti-communist batteries and assassins directly from the CIA. Off-course they are all failed, badly.

The Soviets were not gave much attention to all these until the direct invasion of the US backed Cubans, funded and trained by the CIA.That was a prestigious issue for the Russian allies and it personally it become the duty of General Khrushchev to act for his best friend and his nation.

Khrushchev has decided to move strategic nuclear weapons to Cuba, both to protect them from the American invasions as well as threats and gain advantage on the Cold War game. Through a single action Soviet will get massive advantage over the US, Nuclear missiles just 30 KM away from Washington, 2 minutes travel to take the White House and Pentagon. Moscow was sure that there are no action can give leverage like this. Over the night Khrushchev decided and his sole-mate Generals took this strategic movement highly classified, even without the knowledge of other top officials of the armed forces as well as in the political machinery. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow has fixed General Gribkov to lead the mission and to start talks with Cuba about this. On 3rd day Havana, has replied as 'if this action is necessary for the world of revolution and for the best interests of Soviet Union, it is 'YES''.

General Gribkov, codenamed this operation as 'Operation Anavia', the name of a cold city near to Siberia, the largest seaborne operation in the history of the world. in 4 months, they have to transport and install 60 nuclear missiles, 40000 men, at a distance away more than 8000 miles.

All they have to do it in secretly !