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1983: Doomsday

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Welcome to the Portal Page for the 1983: Doomsday ATL. This timeline explores the consequences of the Doomsday Event, a worldwide nuclear attack that obliterated much of human civilization. The history covers everything from the direct aftermath up to the present day worldwide situation.

This is a "live" timeline - its story continues to unfold in the present day, in real time. See the Live Content section for the latest news updates.

This is also a collaborative timeline, produced by a team of contributors. If you want to join us in developing this world, we welcome your additions. Before making major edits to the articles within this ATL, please take some time to read the Editorial Guidelines.

Contents

Introduction

The Point of Divergence of the 1983: Doomsday- Timeline is a well-known though often underestimated event that took place on 26th of September in the year 1983.

On that day, Colonel Stanislav Petrov was watch officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, which was monitoring for a US missile attack on the Soviet Union.

Suddenly, the computer-based warning systems reported several US Nuclear Missiles approaching Soviet territory. "Here", Colonel Petrov believed the information to be false and did not alert the Kremlin to the data he was receiving. Given Cold War tensions at the time, such information would likely have convinced the Soviets that the US had launched a first strike attempting to "cut off the head" and launched their forces, in the belief it was a "counter-strike", not a first-strike.

Consequently, since the world public knows about this event, it is now often considered to have been the moment closest to a nuclear war between the USSR and the USA in the whole Cold War. Colonel Petrov has in fact been honoured as one of the few true "world saviours" and several documentaries prove the seriousness of this event.

This Timeline postulates the results after Colonel Petrov being sent to another installation several days before September 26th. The officer now on duty on September 26th takes the alert as correct and immediately contacts his superiors. Within minutes, the leaders decide to launch the whole Soviet Nuclear Arsenal. Logically, the Americans react by launching as well. When the first alerted missile is proved to be a false alarm, it is already too late. Thousands of nuclear warheads consequently detonate at targets worldwide, mainly in the northern hemisphere. As The People's Republic of China was surprisingly attacked by Soviet missiles as well,part of their arsenal is launched too.

The results of this total nuclear exchange are close to the forecasts of almost complete worldwide destruction and "nuclear holocaust" as predicted by many scientists of that time, resulting in as much as two billion people killed initially, possibly another two billion in the subsequent environmental disaster.

The world largely devastated, most of the northern and parts of the southern hemisphere in ruins, the estimated 800 million survivors desperately try to keep together what is left of human society. With this they are facing challenges seemingly impossible.

After an incredibly hard and horrifying aftermath during the first few years after Doomsday, at least a few regions, territories and countries stabilize and master basic problems such as food and medical supply. As time passes and the recovery continues, new - sometimes surprising- alliances and a new, fragile world order emerge and manifest. Initial hopes of some survivors for a united mankind or at least warfare and destruction being ended forever quickly prove false. Indeed, the world is lightyears away from any utopian imaginations. Famine, diseases and lack of resources provoke skirmishes and wars in large parts of the world thus often crushing all recovery.

But as some surviving and newly founded nations- particularly a unified Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand and a South American Confederation- prove able to master the problems and even intervene internationally, human extinction seems to be finally avoided.

Now, more than 25 years after "Doomsday" bringing mankind at the edge of total extinction, the foundation of the new "League of Nations" on September 26th 2008- has awakened a glance of hope for a possibly more peaceful future for mankind...

But nonetheless, a new threat is emanating once more in the heart of the Old World, endangering much which has been achieved within the quarter of a century...

Live Content

the live section of this ATL

WCRB NewsHour- World Headlines

For all news please refer to our WCRB Newshour Main Page.

June 26, 2009, 3.00 PM: Celtic Alliance Surprise National Anthem entrant – Barbara Striesand! Former American citizen who was on holiday in Ireland during DD comes forward with surprise entry of the Carousel Musical hit of the 1960’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone”. Mass demonstartions of support across the Alliance after stage performance

June 16, 2009, 3.00 PM: Celtic Alliance government has issued the Constitutional Declaration to retain political control of the south east of the English mainland, in and around the former capital of the U.K. London and to declare its liberal democratic principles, defending human rights and the rule of law. This is the new principal legal document of the Alliance.

June 10, 2009, 8:15 PM GMT: Resettlement begins on Moloka'i: Ground was broken on a new farming cooperative on the once heavily irradiated island of Moloka'i. For over a decade, Moloka'i has been abandoned except for a few temporary fishing settlements on the shore. Lani Weigert, head of Project Imua Moloka'i (Forward Moloka'i), hopes the new farm will set the tone for "a deliberate, sustainable, and prosperous replanting" of the island.

June 5, 2009: Constitutional Convention in the MSP: A constitutional convention begins in the Municipal States of the Pacific. It was convened due to the increasing calls among the population for a more democratic government across the board. One of the major issues is whether the MSP will keep its confederation-style government or adopt a stronger central government.

June 5, 2009: Irish West Coast spotted by Bermudian Navy: An expeditionary force from Bermuda has sighted the western Irish coastline and has made contact with the Celtic Alliance.

May 27, 2009: "Wild Dances" by SSR pop singer Ruslana is picked as the World Cup anthem.

May 21, 2009 ANZC/IIIL New solar energy conglomerate on the way

I.I.I.L. solar market leader SumaSol and Commonwealth's No.2 Heliopower have announced plans to galvanise their companies, which would result in the foundation of the world's leading solar energy conglomerate with an estimated 2 bill. ANZC-$ in revenues and 7800 employees. The Commonwealth Economy Secretary welcomed the plans repeating his last-year word creation of "only a globalized world [economy] can turn the tide and secure world peace".

May 20, 2009 Celtic Alliance: Green party victory in presidential elections: Patrick Quinney has vowed to tackle climate change and to put this issue on the world agenda when the Celtic Alliance takes the LoN presidency next year

May 17, 2009 Celtic Alliance Presidential Commission to designate new National Anthem in time for World Cup...the new band Runrigs song Protect and Survive is favoured. Discussions are also taking place for a global version of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Recent additions

To spread the word of the ongoing discussions and the content now being established the additions will be marked here as "Proposal" or Confirmed/ Canonized Content. Take part in the discussion on this page's discussion page!!! Thanks for your help!! Xi'Reney

A. Confirmed Additions // Canon

  • New page for the surprisingly large Kingdom of Monaco

B. Work in Progress // Proposal

  • Use the Proposal template: add {{ddprop}} to new articles to mark them as proposals.

Principal Content

  • Timeline - the general timeline of this ATL, providing the background and the timeline from 1983 up to the present day"
  • Nuclear Weapons - Post Doomsday's major problem of nuclear weapons still operating, out of control, terrorism etc.
  • Geopolitics - Geopolitical background, Alliances, Cooperations, Rivalries
  • Die Deutsche Version "1983: Tag des jüngsten Gerichts" findet sich hier

Extras: Images, Statistics, Figures etc.

  • Maps - diverse maps displaying the situation from 1983-today
  • Flags - gallery of the flags used in the ATL"
  • People - collection of information regarding important persons
  • Languages - languages spoken in the world before Doomsday, immediately after and in 2009, political, commercial and cultural languages
  • Externals - collection of material related to this ATL, wikipedia etc.

Contributors

This ATL is being maintained and coordinated by the different branches of the WCRB - World Census and Reclamation Bureau

Because of the excellent regional articles (Hawaii, Celtic Alliance, Nordic Union etc.) and to honour the large amount of work done for those articles each registered user taking care of a special region will be awarded a WCRB identity/command post/character if he wants to.

  • WCRB GOHiCO Global Operations High Command - Nuku'Alofa, Kingdom of Tonga Xi'Reney
  • WCRB CPC - Central Pacific Command - Hilo (Hawaii) Benkarnell
  • WCRB CCSA - Comando Central de Sudamerica - Argentina Fero
  • WCRB NUC - Northern Union Command - Reykjavik, Iceland Realismadder
  • WCRB CAC - Celtic Alliance Command - Galway, Celtic Aliance Mjdoch
  • WCRB England Expeditionary Division, Manchester - Owen1983
  • WCRB CoCo - Comando de Colombia - Bogotá, Colombia Chlewey
  • WCRB SIDI - Siberian Division - Sovetskaya Gavan ShutUpNavi
  • WCRB North American Command - Crescent City Mitro
  • WCRB Southern Africa Command - Cape Town Mumby
  • WCRB England Expeditionary Division, Cleveland - Middlesbrough Smoggy80
  • WCRB Mediterranean Command - Constantinople Mr.Xeight
  • WCRB Rocky Mountains Expeditionary Division - Billings Loughery111
  • WCRB Gaulish Expeditionary Division - Monaco Louisiannan
  • WCRB Canada and Saguenay Combined Divisions - St. John's, Canadian Remainder Provinces DarthEinstein

Research & Report Institutions:

  • WCRB ISHV - International School for Heraldry & Vexillology - Arawa, Soloville User:$jurimo§

Would-Be Contributors

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    1. Please detail any proposal you would have for us as well
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