The Secret Backup Just in Case the Atomic Bomb Wasn't Enough

It was the night of August 9, 1945, merely hours after the US had unleashed the second atomic bomb on top of the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

Dense fog blanketed the landscape, shrouding the treacherous Manchurian terrain in a ghostly mist. Like a pale eye, the moon peered through the veil of clouds above. All was quiet; it was the calm before the storm.

In the shadows, a small Soviet platoon with their faces painted in camouflage moved in silence. Suddenly, a distant rumble echoed across the hills, and the soldiers readied themselves.

The rumble grew louder as the sound of hundreds of Soviet tanks and artillery emerged from the fog, a thunderous stampede of iron and steel. The massive invasion force seemed endless.

In the last days of World War 2, a force was assembling in the far eastern reaches of Russia and Mongolia. The next few weeks would be a blistering series of battles, pushing every man to their limit. But the stakes were too high to falter, for the reward was immense.

If they succeeded, they would vanquish the already weakened Japanese forces that still held sway over Manchuria and secure permanent Soviet influence over all of Asia for the rest of the 20th century…

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