A suitcase sized nuclear weapon has exploded in the heart of a major city. The device was never intended to be detonated, but the hundred thousand dead and injured are the unfortunates that must pay the price for Suvarov's fail-safe decision. Although the consequences of this last resort reaction will reach far and wide, the immense collateral damage of that detonation would have been nothing if the existence of a nuclear superpower codenamed Red Mercury was allowed to be unveiled to the public. With a history spanning all the way back to the tensions of the cold war, an unrelenting nuclear...