The Last Phone call!

“Make depth 8,00ft”

“Making depth 8,00ft aye sir. 5 degrees down bubble Ensign and level at 8,00ft”

“Flash traffic coming in on secure channel sir, permission to bring down?”

The conning tower on the American Nuclear missile boat was bathed in red light. The tall bearded captain spoke,

“Retrieve message”

The printer in the conning tower clicked and spat out a message. The Executive Officer passed the message to the Captain. The Captain went slightly pale and read aloud the message,

“To Captain and crew of USS Boston. China is fuelling her birds! Talks have broken down! Proceed to grid reference 12A and carry out pre emptive strike. This is an Alpha One priority signal. Pre emptive strike ordered, full bird strike. Signed The President of the United States of America.”

The XO (Executive Officer) repeated the message over the speakers to the crew.

The captain spoke again,

“Make full revolutions steer 210 magnetic”

The duty dive control officer said,

“Making full revolutions aye, steering 210 magnetic sir”

The Captain walked to his cabin and dialled in the release codes on the safe that housed the two missile keys and removed them. He then  Placed one around his neck. The second key was given to the XO who remained on the bridge of the submarine. The Captain walked to the missile silos’ and spoke to the weapons chief,

“Weps spin up all our birds arm all the Nuclear Missiles. Tell me when we are ready for launch sequence”

“Already on it Captain, estimate 20 minutes to launch capability”

The Captain turned to walk away and the weapons officer spoke,

“Sir are we really going to do this? 24 nuclear missiles targeted on China! They will respond if they can sir!”

The captain was well aware of this disaster scenario being played out for real he said,

“Weps China is fuelling its ICBM’s (Inter continental Ballistic Missiles) our only chance is to destroy them on the ground. We are the nearest Sub you know that weps. I don’t like this anymore than you. We are trained to do this, now lets stay focused and do our jobs”

The Captain went into his cabin. He staggered to the sink and vomited. After washing his face the captain pressed the link to the conning tower and said,