Hi, Captain.
I remember, you once said in one of your videos that you'd like if we'd write some story behind these conquests. So, I decided to write some. It's not that good, 'cuz I've never done something like that before. But I was really trying to do my best.
I wrote it in my language and translated through the Google translator, so there might be some mistakes.
Anyway, at this timeline I mean that Tropic storms on Cuba were just slightly longer and cubans had enough time to place more rockets and prepare them to attack. So, the American goverment would react more actively than it was in real-life.
So I am proud and delighted to present you the first and the last part of 1962: The Nuclear War.This happened on October 26, 1962. A US Air Force U-2 aircraft flew over Cuba for the first time in a long time to film what was happening at the military bases of pro-Soviet Cuba. Piloted by Senior Sergeant Joe Langley, the U-2 was the first to fly over Freedom Island since September due to tropical storms that were particularly active during this time period.
The senior sergeant used up almost all of his gasoline supplies, but was able to fly around almost all military bases in Cuba. Nevertheless, the plane had to make an emergency landing for refueling at the air base in Key West. He was lucky, at the same time, the aircraft of the newly arrived US Air Force brigade were based here.
Immediately after his landing, Senior Lieutenant Paul Arnold, who was on duty at the airbase, came to him:
—Who do I have the honor to talk to?
—Sgt. Sergeant Joe Langley, sir
"That very senior sergeant assigned to be the first to scout this damn island?"
-Yes, sir
-So really the US Air Force plane does not have enough fuel in the tank to fly from California to Cuba and back?
“That's enough, sir. I changed the flight route myself to cover all the military bases on the island, sir. But then...
- Leave it aside. I got the hint. I suppose you've caught a rich catch of photos?
“I hope, sir. "Langley said and pulled out the film, which contained so much material that when opened, some of the photos flew out like birthday confetti.
However, the senior lieutenant was not up to the birthday when he began to examine the first picture he came across.
"My God ..." he muttered under his breath.
- May you repeat, sir?
“I see missiles, I see bloody missiles, Senior Sergeant Langley! I... I order you to immediately go to the base and report to send a message personally to the President through our general-brigadier McDonald! And take the photos!
-Yes, sir!
The letter was sent almost immediately:
“I, Brigadier General of the US Air Force John McDonald, on behalf of the commander of the 15th Brigade of the US Air Force, based at the air base in Key West, Florida; address this letter to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Today, October 26, 1962, U-2, piloted by Sgt. Joe Langley arrived at the air base for an emergency landing. While Checking images taken by aircraft, at least 97 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles were spotted and at least 6 launch centers were on full alert.
/ attached three photographs in which rockets are highlighted with a red felt-tip pen / "
At exactly 11:00 AM, the letter reached Kennedy.
To say that he was surprised is to say nothing. John urgently called a meeting of the Executive Committee in the White House. The topic under discussion was, of course, rockets in Cuba, or rather, how to get rid of them. All members of the Committee were aware of the missiles, so the conversation started immediately.
The news was so unexpected for the top of the government that even Kennedy himself, who in the present 1962 advocated a peaceful resolution of the conflict, admitted that there can be no peace with a country that is secretly placing 100 or even more nuclear bombs in your backyard
R. Kennedy: Okay, John. But what exactly are we going to do?
McNamara: I'm proposing a full-scale invasion of Cuba. We need to build a second D-Day. This can improve the mood of our people and show Russia who they want to fight with.
J. Kennedy: /sigh/ I have to say that I support McNamara in this case. The US simply has no other choice. Raise your hand who is for military intervention
Everyone in the audience raised their hand. The meeting lasted about 10 minutes.
While Kennedy was walking into his office, thoughts about a peaceful resolution of the conflict surfaced a couple of times: he thought about a letter to Khrushchev, about an appeal to the UN, even about removing missiles in Turkey and Italy in exchange for missiles in Cuba. But when he remembered how he had read "... at least 97 rockets ..." just 20 minutes ago, Kennedy realized that the Russians themselves want this war, so let them get it. Otherwise, why did they place those rockets secretly?
John, however, didn't leave hope for a peace. If russians remove those rockets, of course. Or rather, if americans remove? Nevertheless it was just hope. John knew what was going to happen more than anyone else.
The President orders Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to convene a military meeting and discuss a plan for military intervention in Cuba and raise the DEFCON level to 1, which corresponds to the state of maximum alert.
It was decided to urgently mobilize and redeploy about 100,000 American troops to the Gulf Coast in preparation for the largest landings since D-Day in 1944. In the early stages of the war, it was the air force that was to play a decisive role: to disable the missile launchers in Cuba to prevent nuclear strike.
Defense Secretary McNamara made sure NATO leaders were also aware of the urgent mobilization of their troops in case the diplomatic mission Kennedy was preparing for failed.
Kennedy ordered his press secretary to grant airtime to all television and radio broadcasters on October 28, 1962, and to sign the program as "President's Urgent Address to the American People."
By October 28, most of the military began to assemble at bases along the Gulf Coast. The first planes were assembled, including those with nuclear weapons on board. President Kennedy was given 7:00 PM ET to deliver a speech of the utmost urgency. Newspapers reflected this in their headlines. The first sketches of his speech on air strikes and his own quotations during the meeting of the Executive Committee the day before yesterday formed a single whole. Their first bombing raids were to begin at nightfall immediately after conversion to maximize efficiency. The president was supposed to meet with the leadership of Congress a few hours before, to call all members of Congress so that he could quickly declare war on Cuba, rather than pretend that there was a sudden attack by a large, lawless nation on a smaller one. The Soviet Union should not have been mentioned in this operation.
At 7:00 PM on October 28, Kennedy gave a speech to the American public that he never wanted to give as president. He hoped to be remembered by the world as the new peace leader of the 60s, now he will be remembered as the first wartime president since Harry Truman. Perhaps the last ...
The red "On Air" lamp came on and Kennedy began his speech.
/ speech was not created by me. The author is banned from the site where I spied this speech, so the name is not known /
"Good evening, dear fellow citizens:
The US government, as promised, was closely monitoring the buildup of Soviet military power on the island of Cuba. In just the past few days, unmistakable evidence has emerged that the Soviet Union has completed and installed a number of ICBM launchers on the island. In just the past two weeks, their nuclear weapons have been actively prepared for an offensive potential, and put on maximum alert.
The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two different types of installations. Some of these include medium-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead over 1,000 nautical miles. So each of these missiles is capable of hitting Washington DC, the Panama Canal, Cape Canaveral, Mexico City, or any other city in the southeastern United States, Central America, or the Caribbean.
The additional facilities, which have not yet been completed, appear to be for long-range ballistic missiles that can travel more than twice as far, and thus can strike most major cities in the Western Hemisphere, starting in Hudson Bay, Canada. , and up to Lima, Peru. In addition, jet bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons are being assembled in Cuba and are ready to launch a nuclear strike anywhere in our country at any time.
This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base thanks to the presence of these large, long-range and clearly offensive weapons of mass destruction - constitutes a threat to the peace and security of all of America, a flagrant and deliberate violation of the 1947 Rio Pact, the peaceful life of this nation and the hemisphere. the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the Charter of the United Nations and my own public warnings to the Soviets on September 4 and 13 this year.
These actions also contradict repeated assurances by Soviet representatives, both publicly and privately, that the arms buildup in Cuba will retain its original defensive character and that the Soviet Union has no need or desire to deploy strategic missiles on the territory of any other state.
The size of this venture clearly shows that it was planned for several months. However, only last month, after I made clear the distinction between any introduction of surface-to-surface missiles and the existence of defensive anti-aircraft missiles, the Soviet Government on September 11 publicly stated that, I quote, "weapons and military equipment sent to Cuba, intended solely for defensive purposes "which is not true, I quote the Soviet Government," there is no need for the Soviet Government to carry its weapons to retaliate against any other country, for example Cuba ", which is not true, I quote their government," The Soviet Union has missiles so powerful to carry these nuclear warheads that there is no need to look for sites for them outside the borders of the Soviet Union. " This statement was also false.
Neither the United States of America nor the international community of nations can tolerate willful deception and offensive threats from any nation, large or small. We no longer live in a world where actual gunfire alone poses a sufficient national security challenge to pose maximum danger. Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so fast that any significant increase in their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be viewed as a definite threat to not only peace for one country, but also to the peace of the whole world.
For years, both the Soviet Union and the United States, recognizing this fact, have deployed strategic nuclear weapons with great care, never violating the precarious status quo that ensured that these weapons would not be used in the absence of some vital mission. Our own strategic missiles have never been transferred to the territory of any other country under the cover of secrecy and deception; and our history, unlike the history of the Soviets after the end of World War II, shows that we have no desire to dominate or conquer any other nation or impose our system on its people. Nevertheless, American citizens are accustomed to living daily under the gun of Soviet missiles located inside the USSR or on submarines.
In this sense, missiles in Cuba increase an already obvious and present danger, although it should be noted that Latin American countries have never been exposed to a potential nuclear threat before. But this covert, rapid, aggressive buildup of communist missiles in an area well known for its special historical relationship to the United States and the Western Hemisphere, in defiance of Soviet assurances and contrary to American and hemispheric politics, is a sudden, covert decision to deploy strategic weapons for the first time outside of Soviet territory is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo that cannot be accepted by this country if our courage and our obligations are ever again trusted by friend or foe.
In this manner, in defense of our own security and the entire Western Hemisphere, and in accordance with the authority vested in me by the Constitution approved by the Resolution of Congress, I, John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States of America, instruct the American military to take immediate action to eliminate this provocation. against the American people.
In the past few days, I have ordered the transfer of strategic military aircraft from different parts of this country closer to the island of Cuba in case they are needed for defense. I have also instructed military personnel at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to be on maximum alert for defense against the aggressive Cuban government.
Given the sudden and rapid preparation by the Soviet Union without warning on Cuban soil of military and active offensive nuclear weapons, I am convinced that the possibility of a diplomatic solution to this crisis, unfortunately, was thwarted by a reckless disregard for peace and security.
I feel that events have compelled us and left me no choice but to summon these forces and bring them into action to achieve this goal, so shortly before appearing in front of all of you on this broadcast, I gave the order to the American military command to send US Air Force aircraft to initiate strategic airstrikes to remove these dangerous missile launchers and auxiliary weapons from Cuba.
At this very moment, the brave men of our armed forces began to carry out the necessary operations to protect this global region and nation. All the necessary precautions for their safety, the greatest chances for the success of their mission and the ability to withstand as little as possible and minimal losses were recorded. However, I ask for your prayers and thoughts during their hour of action and those loved ones whom they leave to put their lives at the service of the peaceful living people of this hemisphere.
As you might expect, the Caribbean will probably not remain the only area of armed confrontation now that these actions have taken place. US military installations and personnel around the world have been put on defense or defensive as a precaution against possible Soviet or Communist retaliation for our operations in Cuba. NATO and other allies have taken similar steps to ensure the security of their region and their citizens.
However, now that these steps have, unfortunately, been used to secure our defenses, I want to reassure all Americans that now is not the time to let panic or fear take over our people or our nation. At present, all steps are being taken for an early and peaceful settlement of this conflict after the operations in Cuba. There is currently no need, nor is it expected, to change your current daily routine or work habits, or to leave your home. I ask all Americans to behave as calmly and orderly as possible during this difficult time to ensure the fastest and most productive resolution of this difficult situation.
If the Soviet goverment along with Cuban goverment acted wisdomly and thus compromised to save the world peace, we would do the same. However, if events in Cuba or elsewhere change or become more hostile and there is a danger of potential nuclear tensions, the United States will view the launch of any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any state in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a complete retaliatory strike against the Soviet Union.
However, we call on Soviet Prime Minister Khrushchev to immediately convene an emergency meeting of the Security Council in order to immediately begin negotiations at the United Nations with a view to an early diplomatic and peaceful settlement of this crisis.
War is not what we want to have with the Soviet Union or any other country in the world. Peace is what we strive for, but not the conditions of peace imposed on us by such dangerous weapons as nuclear.
However, as these circumstances develop, I will meet with my cabinet, Congress and all other necessary leaders throughout the night to monitor developments in Cuba and work towards a peaceful settlement. We will provide regular updates on events taking place at press conferences held from the Situation Room here at the White House. As stated earlier in this broadcast, I ask all Americans and citizens of other countries to pray and remain calm and steadfast during these terrible events. With your guiding power and wisdom, I am confident that it will end in a way that will show the best in how people can work together on both sides.
Thank you and God bless our people. "
This is where World War III begins. Kennedy's diplomatic mission was out of the question after the USSR launched a full-scale offensive in Germany without declaring war. Who has won? Who Lost? And how was the course of hostilities in general?
The answers to all these questions can be found in the World Conqueror 4 mod by CaptainStryker — Nuclear War Mod!
