First Battle of the Arctic

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The First Battle of the Arctic is the usual name for the strategic nuclear weapons exchange between the Free Market Block and Eurasian Soviet at the commencement of the Third World War. Consisting of silo, field, and submarine launched ICBM and IRBM missile salvos in both directions across the pole, the battle marked the closest humanity had ever come, at that point, to destroying itself, with most historical estimates putting the loss of life for the battle in the billions if a plurality of missiles had reached their targets.

Fortunately for all concerned, the battle was not uncontested, and both the Soviet Photon Curtain and FMB Lucas Constellation Antiballistic Weapon Systems proved their worth. Not one of the missiles is known to have reached its target intact and detonated its payload.

While the battle represents both the start of the immensely destructive Third World War and a huge radiological disaster, it is usually remembered as a testament to the "saving power" of robotics. It also marked the abandonment of MAD as a national defense strategy, and strategic nuclear weapons were thereafter phased out of most arsenals.