"Next month, Alabama gets the bomb. Well, Alabama gets bombed.
It's North Korea who's next. They get nuked.
It’s all part of a classified military exercise slated to begin November
1, an exercise that, with the inclusion of North Korea and a terrorist attack
in the United States, suggests up-to-the-minute relevance. In truth, though,
the exercise replays the same tired Cold War global nuclear war game that
has been the bread and butter of the U.S. military for decades.
The dastardly country of Purple, or maybe it's a terrorist organization aligned
with Purple -- the script doesn't say for sure -- detonates a radiological
dispersal device (or "dirty" nuclear bomb) onboard a merchant ship
located on the Mobile waterfront. The President is in Mobile, leading a summit
of world leaders addressing a tense escalation of global tensions.
The Alabama nuclear "event" kicks off the scenario for Vigilant
Shield, a U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) exercise that is one in a series
of national military exercises scheduled for the first ten days of November.
The nuclear warfare component of these exercises -- called Global Lightning,
and sponsored by U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) in Omaha -- runs at the
same time and will rehearse a nuclear war with North Korea.
In the exercise, Purple is a Northeast Asian nation thinly veiled as North
Korea.
