Cold Warriors (A Special Agent Dylan Kane Thriller, Book #3) by J. Robert Kennedy

Author:J. Robert Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cia, delta force, soviet union, nuclear war, cold war, special forces, conspiracies, james acton, dylan kane
Publisher: J. Robert Kennedy

Alex West Residence, Black Forest, Germany

Kane read the flash message that had just come in over his secure phone, maintaining control of his facial muscles despite the urge for eyebrows to pop and a jaw to drop. Instead he returned the phone to his pocket and looked back at the two elderly men sitting in front of him.

“How about we start with exactly what Crimson Rush is?” he asked the room.

“Well, first how about I explain what it isn’t,” began Zorkin.

“Isn’t?”

“Isn’t,” repeated Zorkin. “What it isn’t is a weapon.”

“Huh?” This time eyebrows and jaw muscles lost control. “Then what the hell are we running all over the place for?” exclaimed Kane.

“You misunderstand. Crimson Rush isn’t a weapon. It’s a battle plan that uses a specific type of weapon.”

Kane’s lips pursed as he sucked in a deep breath.

A battle plan?

He liked the sound of that even less.

“Explain.”

“In the sixties our scientists figured out how to shrink a nuclear weapon down to the size of a large crate. This miniaturization continued and by the early eighties the RA-155 was created. It was a fully functional nuclear bomb that weighed about thirty kilos—”

“That’s less than seventy pounds for us Yanks,” interjected West.

“—and could be carried in a backpack or suitcase.”

“I’ve heard of those,” said Kane. “I thought it was bunk.”

“That’s what you were meant to believe. A disinformation campaign was begun and your side was made to think it was simply a false flag put out to catch moles inside the Soviet Union. Your side responded with a message through private channels that if the weapon were real, and were to be found on US or NATO soil, detonated or otherwise, it would be considered an act of war and would demand a nuclear response.”

Kane looked at West for confirmation, and the man nodded, a frown creasing his clouded face, as if old memories were flooding back.

“I’m sensing a ‘but’,” said Kane.

“There always is it seems. In the early eighties things were pretty turbulent in the Soviet Union, and the upper echelons were beginning to realize that we would inevitably lose the war due to simple economics. Some in the Kremlin wanted to prevent this at all costs, therefore they developed the RA-155 program, and once it was ready, immediately deployed it, and didn’t stop deploying it until the warning from your government.”

“How many were deployed?”

“That I don’t know. In all the years I have been searching I have never been able to find details on deployment, except to say that over one thousand of these low yield weapons were manufactured.”

Kane leaned forward in his chair, his heart skipping a beat.

“Just how powerful are these things?”

“Not very when compared to a conventional warhead. They were mostly half a kiloton to two kilotons. Enough to completely contaminate about ten square kilometers. Anybody in the blast radius would be instantly killed just as in a regular nuclear detonation. About half of the population would die immediately or soon thereafter out to about a kilometer in all directions.

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