CWC 1 Eve of Destruction, 1995

Eve of Destruction Duration: 24 Hours Date: November 5, 1995 On October 28, 1995, an explosion in the Baku Metro in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, killed nearly 300 people. The Soviet Union and her allies blamed western agents for the attack, and promised that a harsh response would be met to the West. The West once again didn't take this threatening of an attack seriously. What happened on October 31, 1995, changed the world forever. The first of the many attacks that day was a bomb that ripped through the arrivals section of Charles De Gaulle International Airport in Paris, leaving 70 dead and over 200 injured. The next bomb went off on an Iran Air Boeing 707 from Tehran to Damascus, leaving 168 passengers and crew dead. The next attack was a SAM launch at a Lufthansa Boeing 747 taking off from Frankfurt Airport, leaving over 100 dead and over 200 injured. The next bomb went off in Washington D. C. on the George Washington Memorial Bridge, killing 20 and injuring 39. Another attack happened in Washington D. C. outside the United States Capitol Building, leaving a congressman seriously injured, but nobody was killed. The last attacks were in the San Francisco Bay Area, killing close to 600 people combined and closing several bridges and roads entering the city. All in all, close to 800 people perished that day in the attacks. NATO almost immedietly turned its head towards the thought of KGB sleeper agents and Spetsnaz units. The Soviets denied responsibility. NATO began to call up reserve divisions in Western Europe and Norway as the Soviets increased maritime patrols, combat air patrols, and naval activity. On the night of November 4, 1995, 3 United States recon satellites lost contact with their controllers on the ground. The United States President George H. W. Bush issued an executive order federalizing 150,000 Reserve and National Guard troops just a few hours later. Just minutes after President Bush gave this order, Soviet artillery came crashing down in the Fulda Gap, N