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HE HIGH ARCTIC, 1963. PIERCING WINDS SHRIEKED DOWN FROM THE NORTH POLE THROUGH A LONELY SOVIET MILITARY BASE BUILT ON THICK SEA ICE. YET, DESPITE THE HOSTILE WEATHER, ALL THE BASE’S OCCUPANTS WERE OUTSIDE AS A CURIOUS PIECE OF MACHINERY WAS UNVEILED TO A HIGH-RANKING OFFICER.

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4 MARSHAL OF THE RED ARMY, ANATOLI ZUKOV, HAD COME A LONG WAY FOR THIS DAY’S DEMONSTRATION. HE GESTURED TO THE CREATOR OF THE MACHINE, THE CHIEF ENGINEER, TO BEGIN.

NUCLEAR-POWERED, I NOTE! IT COULD RUN FOR A CENTURY. YOUR YEARS IN THIS OUTPOST HAVE NOT BEEN WASTED. COME NOW, AS CHIEF ENGINEER, YOU SHOULD HAVE THE HONOUR OF ACTIVATING THE DEVICE.

THE MAN WHO HAD STEPPED FORWARD WAS KNOWN ONLY AS THE CHIEF ENGINEER — HIS TRUE IDENTITY AN OFFICIAL SECRET OF THE SOVIET STATE. HE NODDED HIS THANKS TO THE MARSHAL AS HE STEPPED TOWARDS THE DEVICE’S CONTROL PANEL.

FINALLY! THE CULMINATION OF SO MANY YEARS OF EFFORT — IT HAS TO WORK AS PLANNED!

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5 THE TENSION WAS ELECTRIC AND HE STRUGGLED TO STOP HIS HAND FROM SHAKING AS HE REACHED OUT.

UNAFFECTED BY THE TEST, A HUNDRED MILES DISTANT, DEEP UNDER THE SAME ICE CAP, THE NUCLEAR-POWERED SUBMARINE U.S.S. FRANKLIN SLID THROUGH BLACK WATER.

WE HAVE A SONAR CONTACT, SIR.

ACTIVATING — NOW!

MOVING TO THE SONAR OPERATOR’S SCREEN, FRANKLIN’S CAPTAIN, COMMANDER ROSS DOYLE, SAW THEY WERE NOT ALONE. IT’S A RUSSIAN SUB, SOUNDS LIKE A FOXTROT.

HOPEFULLY THEY HAVEN’T PICKED US UP YET. AND IF WE DO THIS RIGHT, THEY’RE NOT GOING TO!

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6 DOYLE PICKED UP AN INTERCOM MIKE AND ISSUED CLIPPED ORDERS TO HIS CREW. CAPTAIN SPEAKING — POWER DOWN TURBINES, ALL ACTIVITY TO MINIMUM. COMPLETE SILENCE WILL BE MAINTAINED. TAKE HER DOWN, CHIEF.

MACHINERY WHIRRED TO A STANDSTILL AND THE SUBMARINE SANK LIFELESSLY DOWN TO THE ANCIENT OOZE OF THE ARCTIC SEABED.

THE MEASURES WERE TAKEN TO PREVENT THE SOVIETS PICKING UP ANY TRACE OF THE FRANKLIN ON THEIR SONAR OR HYDROPHONES.

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The Arctic ice cap — freezing,

windswept and inhospitable. In the period when East and West faced each other in a tense nuclear stand-off, many things were concealed on and below its wasted landscape. From submarines to top-secret bases, the cloaking ice covered all.

But nothing was as monstrous as the weapon created by a team of ruthless scientists working for the Soviets and led by the mysterious “Chief Technician.”

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