Crying Wolf? Northern Ireland was the only part of the UK with a land border w… Defectors had spread the word to the Indonesians. The new defense reforms, programs, weren't fully in effect yet for American forces. Elections in Brasil took place on November 15th. Both towns are walled and had feudal warlords, one called "the Mayor" in Bay City, the other called In January, it takes over operation of the Taking advantage of the political and economic situation in India, Republica Americana Unida (United American Republic)In other areas, people were not only surviving, but building a foundation for their future. Until then, the plan is to be kept top secret. It has become apparent, even before the "Franklin" left, that the ozone layer had suffered tremendous damage due to the effects of the nuclear explosions. Welcome to the portal page for "Great Nuclear War" This timeline explores the broken world left by the Great Nuclear War - October 28, 1962.. Liberal Party dissident candidate Galán endorsed the official candidate Barco after polls show that voters do not favor Galán. The alternate timeline is basically is where World War III starts on false alarm due to a computer error, leading to the death of 1.53 … Logically, the Americans react by launching as well. Contact with Vice President Bush at The Greenbrier indicated the same situation was affecting them. On April 23, 1984 the decision was made to evacuate the President and Vice President from North America and fly them to Australia. Several of these villages and towns were already part of survivor nations, a fact that the Australian pilots who flew over the region without radio contact with survivors could not have been aware of. POD is one of the most dangerous moments in the 20th century: On September 26, 1983 Stanislav Petrov is not the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow. The ANZC dispatches a flotilla consisting of the refurbished Nimitz, several freighter/first aid ships and three former US submarines. The USSR initially denied the fact that they had shot down the plane but admitted their role several days later. American Samoa, Brazilian presidential candidate José Serra (PSDB) is assassinated by a mentally-ill man who claimed that Serra was going to re-install the military dictatorship. Initial hopes of some survivors for a united mankind (or at least warfare and destruction being ended forever) quickly prove false. The Serpukhov-15 bunker's computers indicate that a US missile is heading toward the Soviet Union. Fired upon by some inhabitants, the Australian pilots make safe landings only at two: Bay City, Oregon and Crescent City, California. Considering the plight of other nations, including many in the Pacific, Samoa's post-Doomsday course has been remarkably smooth. This ATL covers everything from the direct aftermath up to the present worldwide situation. But the American government leaving the devastated country will not be the worst thing to happen on one of the worst days in U.S. History. A war between the US and Russia could have killed millions. Reagan gives the launch codes and orders a full retaliatory strike, including "city-buster" missile attacks from the American submarine fleet. Reagan and Bush leave the US on May 5, 1984. The Franklin crew makes official visits to various governments. Her empty missile silos are filled with food, enough to last 16-to-18 months. As for the other US territories: Guam was destroyed by a Soviet attack, and the Northern Marianas' population and institutions have deteriorated to the point where practically nothing is left. So the Álvares Cabral and the small accompanying convoy - namely the Submarine Death tolls keep rising. On September 26th, 2008, exactly 25 years after the devastating events of Doomsday bringing humanity at the edge of total extinction, Keating, along with representatives of the other acknowledged nations, are expected in Canberra to sign the Foundation Charter of the League of Nations. In WWIII, there can only be losers and corpses. Some state governments, particularly in Utah and Wyoming, were on their way towards establishing independence. One year before the League of Nations is formed, several cities and states throughout the Great Lakes region form the The Sultanate of Aceh proclaims the whole Island of Sumatra as Acehnese territory and let his troops head south. These missile attack warnings were felt to be false alarms by Stanislav Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. Siberia, the Russian Far East and parts of the Kazakh SSR however have survived the blunt of doomsday much better and several of its leaders along with most of it population are still alive. This new plant is to be a first step in alleviating the fuel shortages that still grip the industrialized world. As time passes and the recovery continues, new (sometimes surprising) alliances are formed. The Portuguese Submarine “Albacora” is assigned to accompany the “Franklin” until the Suez Canal is reached. Predictions of the results of a nuclear exchange from the late 1970s and early 1980s prove fairly accurate. Keating's speech on the Australian National Memorial Site in Canberra is the first post-war television broadcast seen by nearly the entire world population. First warpac forces reach the atlantic coast in around two weeks when everyone is out of warstocks already and it's time to start picking up the pieces. In March, amid rising local violence, Indonesia holds a referendum on a new constitution, accepted by 64.5% of the people in a landslide vote. Most importantly, the constitution does not expressly count Acehnese territory and ANZC-associated territories of Papua and Timor as part of Indonesia; therefore, these important neighbors support the new constitution. Plans are put in motion to contain civil disorder, with conscription enacted in an emergency sitting of Parliament in Dublin.