Atomic mushroom cloud over Magdeburg





As 1946 ends, the world has moved past the era of the weltkreig, and now entered what many would dubbed the atomic era. On that one eventful day on August 30th, a sole bomber flew over the city of Magdeburg carrying one bomb that would level the entire city. At 1400 hours time stood still and industrious city was covered in a massive fireball. The result of the Damocles project, the bombing of Magdeburg would mark the first (and so far, the only) time that atomic weapons have been used in war.



The bombing sent shock waves through out the world. The revolution now had the most destructive weapon ever created by man. Perhaps more worrying is the fact that they seem to have little restraint on unleashing it on any reactionary power that may stand in their way. That is if they had anymore atomic weapons in their arsenal. The bomb that was dropped on Magdeburg, code named trinity, was rushed during it’s development and many in high command had little hope that it would work let alone be able to be delivered to it’s target. In facr the pilots who where given the task of flying the bomber that would drop this weapon were given preemptive funerals. In fact the original target was Berlin but news of Russian soldiers located near the outskirts of the city had command change their mind, lest they invoke the wrath of the bear. The new target would be Hamburg but weather condition had the plan make a hasty change of plan and thus Magdeburg’s fate was sealed.





As powerful as this weapon was, manufacturing of the weapon itself was effort that pushed the scientific and industrial sectors to their limits. As such, it would takes months at best and years at worst to manufacture another bomb, let alone produce them in mass quantity. Thus many within both Military and civilian command deemed that this fact, that the International had used their one, and so far only, Atomic bomb, must be kept a secret at all cost. They guessed (correctly) that the fear of having more than one Atomic bomb is what was keeping Boris Savinkov at bay rather than continuing to push further west of the Elbe River. So important was this secret that those who knew the truth were under heavy surveillance, lest the truth slips out before more Atomic Bombs could be produced. Eventually this secrecy was lifted after the second atomic bomb rolled out of the production line. However it was also around this time that the blueprints for the atomic bomb were leaked to Moscow, and thus the arms race began.

