The Lisbon Bomb

In 1966, a United States B-52G Stratofortress bomber, carrying thermonuclear devices, collided with a refuelling aircraft over the quiet coastal town of Palomares, in southeastern Spain.

Alerted, the American military commands and Spanish authorities began an operation to search for the nuclear warheads, which never detonated. All the devices that fell on land and in the Mediterranean Sea were located and recovered, according to the White House.

Five decades later, it is discovered that the truth is different. Taking advantage of the turmoil caused by the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the rise of political extremism, Russians and Islamic radicals forge an alliance, preparing a new explosive device with what, after all, had remained forgotten off the coast of Palomares.

A Portuguese Islamic fundamentalist intends to take advantage, precisely in Lisbon, of the holding of the most important NATO summit ever, and use the mechanism made when God fell asleep — as many believers of monotheistic religions would say to justify the unjustifiable — to change the world forever…