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One Second to Midnight
A doomsday scenario.
It all started on a Saturday morning. Rumours started spreading online that a fleet of B-2 bombers had taken off, destination unknown. A few days prior, an armada of refuelling planes had been scrambled all over Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific. This didn’t look like an exercise or a mere demonstration of strength, even if many hoped it would be.
It wasn’t.
Evening in America; dead of the night in Iran. Explosions flaring up, deadly unseen wings in the air.
The United States have entered the war.
What next? What happens now?
This article is meant to lay out the worst-case scenario, the one nobody wants to see happen.
It can’t be for nothing.
As of now, nobody truly knows the extent of the damage inflicted on Iranian nuclear installations by the first wave of US bombings. Trump congratulated himself, not that this means anything. Maybe Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan have been destroyed in one sortie and Iran’s nuclear ambitions set back decades.
