The story begins during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.An Israeli fighter jet carrying a tactical nuclear bomb is shot down. The plane crashes, and the unexploded nuclear weapon becomes lost, buried deep in the dirt of a Syrian farmer's field for decades, The terrorists realize they cannot defeat a superpower like the United States directly. Instead, their strategy is a "false flag" operation.They hire a rogue East German physicist to help them remodel and upgrade the weapon.Their goal is to detonate the bomb in the United States and frame Russia, forcing the two heavily armed nuclear powers to destroy each other in a retaliatory war.