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Atlas

An encyclopedia of Modern Day
1 January 2026 — 21 February 2026 33 articles 25 primary sources 10 classified records

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The Atlantic Rupture

The Atlantic Rupture is the name given to the collapse of the North Atlantic alliance system and the war that followed it, between 10 January and 19 February 2026. In fifty days the United States severed the sustainment feeds of allied combat aircraft, walked out of the North Atlantic Council, invaded and occupied Greenland and Iceland, and opened a strategic air and naval campaign against the United Kingdom. Europe answered with the first sanctions and the first sovereign as…

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50days from the first severed feed to the North Sea
41dead in the record so far
48allied warheads at sea, none located
1report outstanding, due 24 February

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The occupation of Greenland

The occupation of Greenland began at 17:30 UTC on 19 January 2026, when lead elements of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed at Kangerlussuaq Airport and an …

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The European asset freeze

The European asset freeze was adopted by an emergency European Council on the morning of 20 January 2026, sixteen hours after American forces landed in Greenland. In…

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The American retrograde from Europe

The retrograde is the withdrawal of American forces from Europe ordered on 24 January 2026 — the largest movement of American forces out of the continent since 1990,…

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The B61 vault standoff

The vault standoff began at 17:00 on 29 January 2026, when German, Dutch, and Belgian military police sealed the airfield infrastructure around the three continental…

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Operation Northern Hinge and the occupation of Iceland

Operation Northern Hinge was the American assault on Iceland on 9 February 2026. Beginning at 02:40 UTC with a saturation strike that destroyed the French SAMP/T bat…

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Operation Albion Anvil

Operation Albion Anvil is the American campaign against the United Kingdom, planned in seven days of continuous modelling and delivered to the White House on 14 Febr…

The record, in order

1 Jan 2026 The Greenland directive classified 3 Jan 2026 Pentagon completes the Arctic assault study classified 4 Jan 2026 The kill-chain briefing classified 10 Jan 2026 The severance classified 13 Jan 2026 Europe grounds its stealth fleet public 16 Jan 2026 The carrier is released classified 17 Jan 2026 The Pentagon purge public 19 Jan 2026 The walkout public 19 Jan 2026 Marines land in Greenland public 20 Jan 2026 Europe freezes the dollar public 21 Jan 2026 The basing lockout public 23 Jan 2026 Operation Boreal Bridge public 26 Jan 2026 The retrograde, and the fuel nobody could sell public 26 Jan 2026 Rutte asks for one page classified 27 Jan 2026 The first sanctions ever placed on the United States public 29 Jan 2026 The cordons close around the vaults public 31 Jan 2026 Allies garrison Iceland public 2 Feb 2026 The maritime blacklist public 3 Feb 2026 Four courses of action for sixty warheads classified 7 Feb 2026 Northern Hinge, and the warning about Britain classified 9 Feb 2026 Operation Northern Hinge public 11 Feb 2026 Lakenheath, and the combined command public 14 Feb 2026 Albion Anvil is delivered classified 16 Feb 2026 Phase I: the first strikes on Britain since 1945 public 19 Feb 2026 Phase II: the North Sea public 24 Feb 2026 Phase III staging report — due classified

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Timeline

Every recorded event, public and classified, in order.

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Primary sources

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Casualties and losses

People, ships, aircraft and stockpiles.

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Public statements

Every recorded word the President said in public, against the record behind it.