No, actually, it was a catastrophic cockup involving an attempt to shoot down an incoming Near- Earth Object in around 2097, with a museum- exhibit ICBM, which, because it's reprogramming was botched, probably by Troubleshooters, headed for it's original target. Alpha Complex. The only recognition data on such a thing were to be found in old Civil Defence files from an obsolete data bank, dating to the McCarthyite 1950s...
That, at any rate, was v1.01 as to why Alpha Complex is full of confused communists. There were revisions, devisions, alternate visions, and dangerous visions, of course. Dr Whom and the Paranoids of Alpha?