Operation Cobalt

Operation Cobalt was the campaign devised by the Department of Defense and enacted by the U.S. Military to contain the spread of the Wildfire Virus during the outbreak. The operation was launched on August 28, 2010 shortly after the global societal collapse in the United States and Canada. The societal collapse happened due to the large amounts of walkers and rioters in the big city. The operation also deemed martial law in all states and Safe Zones were created to protect civilians from the walkers.
As the operation continued, the military sweeped neighbourhoods and towns, executing all civilians outside of the Safe Zones. This was done to make sure that the rising population of the dead couldn't grow higher and become an even bigger problem than it already is for the U.S. Military. But the operation failed quickly given it all was poorly coordinated and because of that, Canada and the U.S. both dissolved. The last orders from the president were to send the last bombs the countries had towards major infected zones to try and stop the infection.
== Background ==
On April 16, 2010, the Center for Disease Control would detect the Wildfire Virus, a disease that came from la Biomédicine DDMI, a biomedicine laboratory in France. Wildfire is an airborne and latent viral infection that restarts the hindbrain and turns an infected host into a walker after death. Upon resurrection, walkers carry an active agent of the virus that is lethal upon entering the bloodstream of a healthy individual, typically delivered through a bite or scratch.
Within the following months, very little cases occurred to the public. By August 2010, more incidents began to occur of people dying, coming back to life, and killing people to devour their flesh. These stories were dismissed as hoaxes or sensationalist hype by the general public. Meanwhile, the authorities kept the existence and true nature of the virus secret. Other than government and military officials, members of law enforcement and emergency services were aware of Wildfire's true nature.
On August 25, 2010, Wildfire was declared by the CDC as a global pandemic. The entire human population on the planet had become infected with the virus. Every person that died, except for extreme head trauma, then reanimated into a zombie and caused more death around them. Incidents of police shootings of zombies were criticized by the civilian population as an abuse of power and shooting unarmed civilians.
== Military Activity ==
On August 27, the death toll and number of walkers reached critical levels. The civilian outrage was unable to be controlled as people were looting and rioting. This led to nationwide anarchy and a societal collapse. On the next day, all states were declared in martial law and shortly after a global power outage would happen. Safe Zones were built in neighbourhoods and cities and all people outside of the Safe Zones would be executed by the military.
Soon, almost every crevice in the U.S. would be walker infested, no matter if there was a Safe Zone or not. The U.S. Military were gravely outnumbered and losing the battles against the walkers which roamed the streets. 
== Sunset Protocols ==
On September 8, the President of the United States approved the contingency plans for Operation Cobalt, also referred to as Sunset Protocols by the U.S. Marines. The Safe Zones proved to be impossible to defend against the billions of walkers, lack of resources, breakdown in communications, and soldiers abandoning the frontlines to saves themselves and their families. On September 9, Sunset Protocols were put into effect at 0900 PDT. All military personnel were ordered to humanely terminate the civilians within the Safe Zones and withdraw from their posts to the nearest base. The plan was enacted a day later, and major urban centers were bombarded. The overall purposes of this emergency operation can be listed below;
* Individuals in medical facilities to be immediately terminated, soldiers to use protective suits and gas masks
* Military units to withdraw from the various safe zones previously established and approach military bases for further re-collocation of troops.
* Infected zones to be disintegrated with air vehicles and massive use of explosive material. The Contingency Plan also included clauses to authorize the use of nuclear weapons to destroy various metropolitan areas as an attempt to slow the pandemic. However, this order was never carried out as nuclear-propelled submarines were either abandoned or the crew was infected.
== List of Cities Bombed ==
* United States of America
** All major cities
* Canada
** Vancouver