a Second Miss Space

Red Shift is a final defence line, to be activated as a last resort if the territory of Alaska has been deemed lost to the BETA advance. If the number of large BETA strains crossing the line reach a certain limit, over two hundred buried hydrogen bombs, each described as "the size of the Tsar Bomba" will detonate. This will destroy the invading BETA and create an artificial strait that will be used as a new defense line. If this ever came to be, the likely outcome would be the total annihilation of the communist supernation, the USSR, as an organization. The existance of the Red Shift protocol is so highly classified, only a handful of high ranking people in Yukon Base know of it.