The Millennium Coup The cold war is over. The West has won and the Soviet Union has collapsed. The United States and the new Russian Federation have publicly complied with the SALT II agreements and have destroyed their nuclear weapons. The world seems to be safe from the threat of nuclear holocaust. Yet die-hard communists are still in positions of power within the new Russian Federation. Working as a shadow government behind the facade of the legitimate regime, this cadre of old-line Soviets have managed to fake the destruction of the Soviet nuclear missiles. They are quietly rebuilding the old Soviet empire and are planning to destroy the United States using new weapons derived from the theories of an outspoken American scientist spurned by the Western scientific establishment. Now the new weapons are ready to use and the plan is ready to launch. The first step is the eradication of American defense satellites, followed by the obliteration of the US space program and the destruction of the American economy. Then a one-sided nuclear war will be initiated, leaving a new Soviet Union as the dominant world power. Only three men stand in the way: a Russian Colonel, a disgraced US naval officer, and a spy from Finland.