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The 1983: Doomsday world

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Welcome to the Portal Page for the 1983: Doomsday ATL.

This timeline explores the global history after Doomsday -September 26th, 1983.

A worldwide nuclear exchange caused by a minor incident obliterates much of human civilization. This ATL covers everything from the direct aftermath up to the present worldwide situation.

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[edit] 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, 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 "here" the world public now 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 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. 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 conflicte and wars in large parts of the world thus often devastating all carefully achieved 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, mankind's extinction seems to finally have been 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, new dangers are emanating once more all around the globe, threatening most of what has been achieved within the quarter of a century...

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November 8, 2009: Peace Talks Fail for the war in Quebec: One week ago, on November 1, a group of Saguenay and Superior diplomats walked into the town of Sacré-Coeur, Quebec, under a flag of truce. They asked to meet with Canadian diplomats to negotiate an end to the ongoing war between their nations. Canadian diplomats arrived on November 4 and talks began which lasted four days until they broke down today. The Saguenay/Superior delegation demanded that Canada retract their claims on the Great Lakes region, Saguenay, and the Gaspe peninsula, and recognise the independance of Saguenay and the Republic of St. Lawrence. Canadian officials did not accept these demands, after four days of fruitless negotiation the Saguenay/Superior diplomats left. Before leaving, a Saguenay official said, "We are sad that the Canadians do not want to end our war. We may have to bring in other nations to solve our dispute, but we are reluctant to draw others into our conflict." The Canadian party did not comment, but Canadian Prime Minister Walter Natynczyk said to the media, "We haven't lost the war. And they haven't won the war. We're going to fulfill our promise, to stand on guard for thee."

November 7, 2009: Air raids against Saguenay begin:
ST. JOHN'S – Hoping to break the stalemate in the Saguenay War, Canada and the Celtic Alliance have begun a large scale bombing campaign against targets in Saguenay. Canada hopes that the air raids will help to bring a quick close to the war before winter sets in. Recently arrived Celtic Alliance fighter aircraft have begun a series of air raids against several cities in Saguenay. Hardest hit was the capital city of Chicoutimi, where an unconfirmed number of targets were destroyed.

The air raids were believed to be carried out using Mirage III and recently purchased Saab Gripen fighter aircraft. In the raids on Chicoutimi 20 civilians were reported to have been killed, along with an unspecified number injured. Saguenay officials blasted Canada and the Celts for targeting civilian areas. Canada responded by stating that Saguenay attacked several Canadian civilian areas at the start of the war, and that its bombing campaign is specifically avoiding civilian targets. More of these air raids are expected to follow in the coming days.

November 6, 2009, 7:43pmGMT: FIFA announces candidates for 2009 World Footballer of the Year award: LUQUE, Paraguay - The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced the candidates for its 2009 World Football of the Year award. On the list are the 2008 winner Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and 2007 winner Kaka of Brazil, along with Lionel Messi (United American Republic), Giovani dos Santos (Mexico), Georgi Zuhov (Siberia), Stephen Wyssling (Alpine Confederation), and Diego (Brazil).

November 6, 2009, 4:35am GMT (November 5, 10:35pm Central): West Texas update on Waco: MIDLAND - Army spokesman Lieutenant Kenneth Douglas updated the media on the status of the military and civilian expedition to eastern Texas and its findings in regards to the former city of Waco. Douglas told reporters that the city suffered some conventional missile damage to its airport and an airfield at former Connally AFB (which closed in 1966). Douglas also said human remains have been found both inside and outside buildings around the city, and that the area had "the markings of some type of major conflict that we are still trying to piece together". Douglas noted that a military base has been set up inside the city and that, under provisions from a little-noted bill signed into law by President Mike Conaway in April, the Waco "region" has been designated as the Provisional Territory of Waco. Douglas would not comment on a question from a reporter regarding rumors that Army personnel had been in contact in recent days with persons from Nacogdoches.

November 5, 2009:Provisional Government of St. Lawrence formed on Gaspe Peninsula RIMOUSKI - The military governor of the Gaspe Peninsula, General Horace Beatty of the RSA, has annouced the formation of a provisional government on the Gaspe Peninsula, known as the Republic of St. Lawrence. A constitutional convention is to be held on the 10th of December, while elections will be held in January.

November 5, 2009: Washington Protectorate to vote on integration with Victoria VICTORIA - The Victoria administered Washington Protectorate will vote on integration into the Republic of Victoria tomorrow. Current polls show support for the motion at 57%. If accepted, the Washington assembly will be disbanded and the territories will be re-organized into 3 electoral districts with the same representation as the rest of the republic. If not accepted, the territory will continue to act as a semi-autonomous region within the republic.The Committee to Restore the United States of America is ramping up their campaign against the motion.

November 5, 2009: RTA recognizes Saguenay PAPEETE - The Republic of the French Southern Territories diplomatically recognized Saguenay and denounced Canada for its expansionist policies. This reaction came as no surprise considering the long standing dispute that the Republic has had with Canada over the ownership of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

November 5, 2009, 4:08am GMT (November 4, 10:08pm Central): Conaway wins second term as President; Reeder concedes: MIDLAND - West Texas President Mike Conaway has won Tuesday night's Presidential election. With 86 percent of ballots having been counted, incumbent Conaway has nearly 72 percent of the votes, while challenger Harry Reeder has 27 percent. Reeder conceded from his campaign headquarters in Hobbs, congratulating Conaway in a phone call. At his campaign headquarters in Midland, Conaway told supporters and onlookers - including observers from the League of Nations and Dinetah as well as reporters from Mexico and the North American Union - he was grateful to have been reelected, and "have another chance to push West Texas forward further into the regional and international community of nations." Sources said Conaway this week will begin working on pushing his agenda in regards to international trade, eastern Texas and rebuilding relations with Mexico.

November 4, 2009, 10:19pm GMT: Guadalajara holding parade for its Mexican World Series champion Leones: GUADALAJARA - The city of Guadalajara held a parade this afternoon for its Mexican baseball champion team Guadalajara Leones. The Leones beat Mexica Diablos 3-1 Sunday evening to win the series and the Mexican Major League championship.

November 4, 2009, 10:02pm GMT: Waco report to be made public on Thursday; Conaway projected to win second term as President MIDLAND - West Texas Radio reported that the Army report on the city of Waco will be made public Thursday morning. While far from comprehensive, the report is expected to give a brief update on the status of the former city, which was discovered to have not been destroyed by nuclear blasts, but long abandoned, with further details to come from a second expedition to the city later this month. West Texas Radio also projected incumbent Mike Conaway as the winner of yesterday's Presidential election, based on exit polling throughout the nation. The official results for the Presidential election, as well as Congressional races, are expected to be announced around 10 pm local time this evening.

November 3, 2009, 8:20pm GMT: Douglas arrives in MSP: CRESCENT CITY - Vermont President Jim Douglas arrived this morning in the Municipal States of the Pacific for the next two days. Douglas did not speak to local media nor reporters traveling with him and the Vermont delegation, but sources say that Douglas was in the MSP to meet the country's Central Committee officials and to discuss trade and other matters with them.

November 3, 2009, 3:30pm GMT: West Texas expedition finds Waco to have survived Doomsday, but abandoned: MIDLAND - The West Texas Army sent out a press release to the media this morning stating that its expedition traveling to eastern Texas has entered the former city of Waco, which was found to have apparently survived Doomsday but long abandoned. Waco had been long believed to have been devastated by one or more nuclear blasts, but the expedition found a city "that showed signs of having been abandoned for numerous years" with "no signs of life, now or recently." More details would be forthcoming in the next few days, according to the release. The announcement was expected to have no effect on voters choosing between incumbent Mike Conaway or challenger Harry Reeder in today's Presidential election.

November 3, 2009, Monrovia, Peace Agreement Ends Civil War in Liberia: MONROVIA - The League of Nations Mission to Liberia has announced that an official peace agreement was signed between the warring factions of Liberia, ending the decades long civil war that had gripped the former country. All factions agree to drop any claims they have against the others and will begin to disarm their forces to an agreed upon level. Celebrations were held in Monrovia and other Liberian cities.

November 2, 2009, 6:20pm GMT: Douglas, Vermont delegation to arrive in Crescent City Tuesday morning:  BURLINGTON - The national government announced via a press release that President Jim Douglas would stop in several nation states over the next two weeks on his return to Vermont, starting with a visit with the leaders of the Municipal States of the Pacific in Crescent City Tuesday morning Pacific time (Tuesday afternoon GMT). The release also stated that Douglas also did a taped interview during his stay in Tonga with the Australia/New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, to be broadcast in the ANZC this week, in which Douglas expressed his patience with the process for League of Nations membership; his hopes for cooperation among North and Central American and Caribbean nations; and his regret at not being able to meet up with former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. The release also outlined his stops, beginning with the MSP, then Billings; Deseret; Midland; Lincoln; Superior; Kentucky; and Virginia.

November 2, 2009, 5:45pm GMT: Announcer on radio signal from eastern Texas acknowledges West Texas; little comment from Conaway, who did say forces were on the outskirts of Waco:  MIDLAND - The mysterious AM radio signal believed to be broadcasting from eastern Texas broke its established format today, carrying a one-minute announcement at 10AM local time (4PM GMT) that was repeated over the next hour and 15 minutes. The announcer first identified the station as "KVRT, the voice of the Republic of Texas", then paused for five seconds before making a statement acknowledging the "nation of Western Texas" and that "our broadcast must have surprised all of you out west." The announcer stated that Nacogdoches was the capital of the 13 survivor communities in the region, and that they were "eager" to meet the West Texan representatives in the coming days. He also said they were able to monitor full-power stations from West Texas and other survivor states in the region. West Texas President Mike Conaway, campaigning in Sweetwater before Tuesday's national elections, said he "was aware of the situation, and is hopeful for a peaceful, joyful reunion between whoever's out there and our forces". Conaway told reporters he understood those forces to be on the outskirts of old Waco. Democrat challenger Harry Teague, trailing by a 2-1 margin in Sunday's West Texas Radio/Odessa American poll, told supporters in Big Spring that he understood the difficulties Conaway must be facing between running a campaign and dealing with the east Texas situation, but "it must not interfere with his, and our obligations to help our fellow Texans. Cuba (referring to the recent WCRB expedition in the southern United States) should not explore our land, WE should, and should have done so years before. I understand that, and the people understand that, and not only will I follow through on that if I'm elected tomorrow, but I hope our President understands that and follows through on that if the people choose him." Update, 7:58pm GMT: Army spokesman Lieutenant Kenneth Douglas affirmed to West Texas Radio this afternoon that the Army, with support of the President, would seek to control news about the expedition for "security reasons and the safety of the expedition. It would not hamper the feeding of information to the public regarding discoveries in and enroute to the region. We know someone out there is listening, and we merely want to protect our people."

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  • Economics - Background regarding economical topics
  • Nuclear Weapons - Post Doomsday's major problem of nuclear weapons still operating, out of control, terrorism etc.
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