The Great War

Nuclear Strikes on an American City

Nuclear bases around the world

Nuclear Bases around the world

The **Great War** also known as the **Final War** was an event in which the United States and its allies and Russia and its allies fired mutually launched nuclear missiles at each other in the last year of World War III. This doomed the fate of all humanity and when the bombs fell human civilisation was destroyed and new nations rose from the ashes. The Great War was a major event that led to the current setting of The Dark Future Trilogy.

## History

During the war, Russia and America were battleing it out in China when the power of the Chinese Communist Party weakened and collapsed, splitting the country into two, the newly formed Greater Republic of China and the PRC controlled by the Eurasian Coalition. Seeing the intense military build-up in America and the large scale military presence in the plan to invade territories and liberate China, the Russian government secretly deployed nuclear weapons in America and Canada, and destroyed 4 major military installations. The US government was considering a nuclear terrorist attack. It is not known who launched the missiles first, some say America launched the first missiles after the Russians deployed warheads in America and Canada, others say Russia launched after America armed its missiles in response, some rumours say it may have been Israel, but the conflict quickly led to all-out nuclear war. Then chaos broke out as both major powers and their allies simultaneously launched warheads, millions of citizens began to rush to the nearest fallout shelters as bombs began to fall and cities began to destroyed.

### North America

The United States was the first nation to be hit by a nuclear attack during the war. The first to be hit was a military base in southern Alaska, when the base's radar jammed and a Russian nuclear weapon struck the base and destroyed it. The first alarms went off when Russian warheads began to arrive in major cities on the West Coast, and alarms went off immediately after reports came in that the West Coast had been almost completely obliterated. In the meantime, many US citizens began to flee with their families and loved ones to underground fallout shelters after the country began to collapse and burn under the atomic fire. Soon in retaliation, American warheads began to be launched as they began to deploy French and British nuclear weapons while Russian began to hit their soil, and soon the President and his family fled to the emergency fallout shelters as Washington DC followed suit and London and Paris went completely dark. The Midwest managed to survive the war, as the harsh cold winters allowed for a smaller civilian presence and hidden military bases. When the war ended, about 26% of the population had survived if they lived in a place where they had not been hit by nuclear strikes or radiation, or who were able to escape in time to fallout shelters. Canada was also plunged into darkness by nuclear weapons, with only 18% of its population surviving, and Mexico was completely destroyed, with few survivors. Greenland is currently unknown, although it was home to several NATO military bases, but some speculate that it was not hit by a nuclear attack, and was a former colony of the former European nation of Denmark before the war. Greenland's population, like those of Siberia and Alaska, survived the war and new nations have risen from the ashes.

### Europe

Russian nuclear weapons hit Europe the hardest during the war. Russian warheads were quickly launched into major European cities (London, Paris, Berlin, etc.) and soon the whole and soon the once prosperous continent was plunged into chaos and eternal darkness. The polar regions of Norway, Sweden and Finland in the north survived the war as Russian nuclear weapons were not launched into the territory.

### Aftermath

After the Nuclear Holocaust, the planet's biosphere became unbreathable toxic, and a cloud of radioactive dust spread through the atmosphere around the world. The irradiated dust cloud flooded the world, blocking out the sun and plunging the world into perpetual darkness, resulting in a nuclear winter. The plant world could not maintain photosynthesis, and the intense radiation led to destabilisation of the food chain and extinction or mutation of surface fauna. Most humans survived the atomic war, but the high levels of radiation killed billions on the surface who did not turn into radiation-contaminated animal instinct mutants.

## Trivia

* Many colder regions, such as Alaska, the Northwest, Siberia, and the Arctic regions, have escaped war and nuclear strikes because of a low and hidden military and civilian presence.
* After the war, these regions were able to build their states and prosperous societies with ease, but soon ran into problems due to lack of resources, rival factions, dangerous anomalies, the appearance of mutants, and environmental disasters such as heavy snowstorms and the monsoon season.