Death Cload Essay, Research Paper
2100 hours, Captain James S. Steward of the United
States Air Force straps on his G-suit and goes over his
mission briefings one last time. He walks out into the
hanger and awaits his chariot. The SR-71 Blackbird, the
fastest plane in the world with it’s twin turbine engines
and slick black radar absorbent skin make him a flying
shadow in the air. His mission, to fly a covert
reconnaissance mission over Moscow, the heart of the USSR
Intelligence believe that the Russians have a build up of
nuclear missile silos around the capitol. With the Cuban
missile crisis at hand, the United States cannot let their
guard down on a sneak attack from the Communists.
“Another suicide-run,” says Captain Steward to his
flight maintainer.
“Yes, sir,” replies the private.
Captain Steward squeezes into his cockpit seat like a
sardine in a can. Little switches, gauges, and buttons
embellish the cockpit, each with a crucial part in flying
the aircraft.
“Ready to rock n’ roll.”
Steward pulls the Blackbird out of the hanger like a
cumbersome Oldsmobile, but only this special Oldsmobile can
travel over twice the speed of sound undetected by enemy
radar. With a push of the throttle the twin-turbine engines
roar with authority. The bird takes flight disappearing
into the night skies evanescently. The only sign that it
exists is the trademark sonic boom as it passes the sound
barrier.
After approximately seven hours flight time and two in-
flight re-fuelings, the Blackbird reaches its destination,
Moscow, Russia. The thermal imaging camera, located in the
bird’s hull, depicts the radioactivity from nuclear silos as
bright yellow and orange blobs on the terrain. The images
show seas of yellow throughout Moscow. The city resembles a
giant missile base up and operational. Captain Steward
pulls a 180 and heads for home with sick eerie feeling in his
stomach.
After a long comprehensive study of the recon images,
the United States order an increase in their production of
their nuclear missiles to counter-attack any offensive the
Russians have planned. Silos sprout like weeds throughout
the United States and the President gave the order for
Defcon 2. The country falls in a state of panic, as they
slip one step closer to a nuclear holocaust.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the USSR notices the
nuclear build up in the United States. In fear of an
preemptive strike, the Communist fuel and prepare their
birds just in case. This pre-war act resembles a chess
game; one side makes and move and the other counters it
until both sides end up killing all their pieces. Both
countries fall into a stalemate, waiting for the other to
make the first fatal move. Tensions mount as the stand off
continues for weeks.
On a clear Sunday morning 0700 hours, Russian radar
picks up an American U-2 spy plane just finishing a routine
recon mission. The Russians take this as a national threat
and a violation of their air-space. So it begins. The
Russians make the first crucial move, launching twenty-four
nuclear armed missles on populated cities scattered
throughout America. Strategic cities like Washington DC,
Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Dallas fall among the
list of targets. American satellites pick up the launch,
forcing them into Defcon 1. The United States counter-
attacks with a wave of their own missiles aimed throughout
Russia. The missiles take the air like a swarm of bees,
with a stinger capable of killing millions within seconds
upon impact. Somewhere over the Atlantic the Russian
missles and the American missles pass each other by. The
missiles home into their pre-determined targets with no
mercy and no hesitation. The impact of a single warhead
creates a tremble that measure 2.9 on the Richter scale.
The blast-wave radiates hundreds of miles wiping out
everything in its path. Houses and building blow over as if
constructed of paper. Complete obliteration within a matter
of seconds.
The victims of the blast-wave do not even have the time
to hear their own scream. Everyone within a hundred miles
of the detention sees a flash and instantaneously they
disinergrate into a meager pile of gray ashy dust. Those
who did not die immediately upon impact suffer radiation
poisoning. Any person within two-hundred miles of the blast
suffer radiation burns so severe that the skin sizzles like
bacon . Some victims sprout a third arm and mutate into un-
human creatures, like teenage mutant turtles. After several
hours of exposure, the victim’s skin melts into a liquid
state and they go into convulsions. Radiation poisoning
saturates their internal organs and the body rejects them.
The body’s own innate instinct to flush out foreign objects
causes victim to vomit their own internal organs. Moments
before death the victim’s eye s shrivel up like sun-baked
raisons. This nuclear holocaust claims billions of lives.
Both countries literally glow like a night-light from the
radiation.
The mushroom clouds , the only thing left, blanket the
Earth. The clouds mask the Sun restricting light to reach
the surface. Acid rain pours out of the radioactive clouds
and eat away the O-zone layer. Ultra-violet rays bake the
Earth like a microwave TV dinner. The surface temperature
reaches a scorching two-hundred degrees. The polar ice
poles and two-thirds of water that once cover the Earth,
evaporate leaving the landscape naked. For tens of
thousands of years our Earth cannot support life all because
the hands of man. The upraise in humanity results in the
annihilation of the human race and of the world. We created
our own demise ; we created our own Doomsday.