International Response to Atomic Man



After Atomic Man was revealed following the Alice Disaster, many foreign powers perceived a transhuman gap between PoD and the rest of the world. Over the next fifty years, there were many attempts at creating a human weapon to match Atomic Man’s power.

Although the projects rarely produced subjects that could directly stand up to Atomic Man, many ended up as effective propaganda pieces that the count

Project Freedom
The day after Atomic Man was discovered, the clandestine project freedom was started. It was originally created both as a response to Atomic Man and as a potential operative for the Eastern Front during WWII. The subject of the project is now known only as Bucky. Bucky was equipped with a variety of prototype weaponry including the first x-ray goggles, a lightweight, bulletproof body armor with built in hang-glider that proved too expensive to mass-produce, and fluoride-gas grenades.

Although Bucky functioned largely as a political symbol, he became active in 1944 and parachuted into France on D-Day. After WWII he was publically retired.

Parts of Project Freedom was declared unclassified in the wake of the Iran Contra affair. It was revealed that Bucky apparently doesn’t age, and participated in many black-ops wetwork missions from the 50s until the 80s. He has been deployed in Cambodia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, North Korea, the PoD, and Libya.

Ubermensch
Ubermensch was the German response to Atomic man dreamt up by Joseph Goebbels. His human origin was unknown. He functioned as a personal bodyguard for the Fuhrer and he functioned as a symbol of the might of the Reich and Aryan pride. He was revealed to the public in 1944.

He was found dead with Hitler and other prominent Nazi leaders in the Fuhrer Bunker in Berlin. Soviet troops recovered his body.

The Red Hammer
The Red Hammer was the Soviet answer to the Project Freedom. He first appeared publically in 1966. Not much is known about him. Supposedly Bucky recovered his body in Cambodia in 1972, but it disintegrated into dust mere days later, and there have been Red Hammer sightings since then. His current position is unknown as he disappeared from the public eye after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

-EPM