Creative Writing: The Cold War

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contract money (estimated at 1.6 billion dollars), returned or they wanted the hardware.
This of course was the latest in a series of crisis since the new administration had taken control in America in 2008.
Pash did not know what Putin had on Obama, but it had to be something big. For the US President to withdraw the missile system in Eastern Europe, allow Syria to go unchecked, and Putin to annex Crimea was in a word incomprehensible.
Under the previous American administration any of these actions would have caused a negative reaction with military escalation. Thus the only logical conclusion was Putin had the goods on Obama, or Obama was a genius.
The smart money was on the former. Now the Americans were backing a deal with Tehran that
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She had two hundred of the best scientists in Iran working for her. Today she had been summoned to the facility which is more reminiscent of an age old castle in terms of security.
All she could imagine was the Greeks in the legendary assault on Troy. This would be the modern equivalent of an attack on this vastly protected facility. It required a descent 40 feet below the mountainous terrain by high speed elevator. The iron ore, part of the mountains natural make-up would be extremely hard to penetrate by a conventional weapon system.
Today was unusual in that she had been summoned to attend a meeting with the Iranian defense minister and a high ranking diplomat from the Russian embassy. It was dark outside, a beautiful summer evening in the desert. She was escorted down to the conference room.
This meeting had to be important as her mountain fortress was protected against large ears, a term for enemy satellites systems with extensive eavesdropping features.
She enter the conference room and recognized the Iranian Minister and what was obviously a Russian diplomat. You could always tell by their cheap suits, the Russians had no sense of
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“This will take you directly to the mountain facility, stay low and start to accelerate gradually”
“Once you hit super-sonic speed, the Russians will know they have been duped as their system will detect that speed”
“You will have approximately 90 seconds before the complex radar system will disseminate your signal”
McCoy must have looked quizzical.
“The Soviet, sorry, Russian radar system has the nickname big-ears, as the main system looks like a set of enormous round ears”. “The large ears and oval shape are extremely sensitive, and will separate and pickup air speed and radar signals.”
“Once your signal and speed are detected, a specialist will find you, the “Russian trainers will understand immediately what is going on.”
“They will understand that the mountain facility is under attack”. “Naturally they assume it is a conventional attack”. “This may give you an additional 20 seconds”, you will have to use every second”.
“Make sure you have a visual confirmation before you fire your first missile, our intelligence suggests that this section of the mountain is a bridge section that is used to cross between the two

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