The year is 2025. China has covertly declared war on the United States of America. The war did not begin as Pentagon planners had prepared—a missile fired at a US warship or a military base in Alaska or Hawaii. The war started with a solar flare on the surface of the sun, 93 million miles away. The flare had been detected by China’s Meridian Project, a network of fifteen monitoring stations that saw something unusual—a coronal mass ejection—a large jet of ionized gas and magnetic particles shooting out of the sun’s corona and heading directly for earth.
Technicians at the Beijing space weather monitoring station immediately notified the Central Military Commission that a major solar storm would reach earth in 18 hours and would likely cause a massive disruption of electronic devices, including sensitive military and civilian satellites orbiting earth some 300 miles in space up to the high-flying birds circling 22,300 miles in geosynchronous orbit.
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