May 2018. All over the Earth, nuclear industry enterprises, ballistic missile position areas, strategic aviation airfields, special ammunition depots suddenly disappear, and in their place there are corners of wildlife with unusual flora and fauna. The planet faces a full-blown economic and political crisis. Fearing to lose the status of the only superpower, the US leadership decides to organize a small victorious war. To fully demonstrate its military power, America appoints Russia as a whipping boy, and Syria as a theater of operations. The United States is not afraid of a retaliatory strike, because nuclear deterrence no longer works.