Special Forces - 13. Nuclear Roulette Game
In the fall of 2002, the analytical center of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces received information from various confidential sources almost simultaneously regarding preparations by international terrorist organizations to intensify their activities on the country's southern borders.
In mid-September, a special forces unit under the command of Captain Shalimov managed to destroy a weapons caravan in the Southern Federal District and capture an emissary from the foreign organization "Sword and Glory." Extremists from this international militant training center had long threatened to commit a series of terrorist attacks in Russia against facilities crucial to the nuclear missile security system.
Interrogation of the captured emissary revealed that a meeting had taken place near the Russian border near the city of Jerra between sellers of a shipment of radioactive materials and representatives of the militant wing of "Sword and Glory." The negotiations focused on the terrorists' purchase of the radioactive isotope "Rhenium 121," valued at over three million dollars. There was also increased interest in purchasing a ready-made explosive device based on the Reniya. Sellers arrived from the Russian city of Varyazhsk.