1983: Doomsday

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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.

This is a "live" timeline - its story continues to unfold NOW, 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 .

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...

Live Content
the live section of this ATL

WCRB NewsHour- World Headlines
For all news please refer to our .

September 10 2009: Celtic Alliance on hearing the news the PM Paul McDonald issued a televiseed statement Appealing for calm

September 9, 2009: Saguenay Prime Minister Stéphan Tremblay is assassinated: Prime Minister Stéphan Tremblay, of the largely unrecognised, was assassinated by a radical member of the neighboring 's Canada First Party. There are unconfirmed rumours that Saguenay's army is mobilising.

September 8, 2009: MSP Approves New Constitution: The  passes a new constitution, called the "Second Contract," granting more individual freedoms and requiring democratic governments for member states, but retaining the loose confederation of the MSP.

September 3, 2009: New Britain approves new prefix:  has passed legislation through the British Parliament altering the prefix on treaties and wars from Anglo (e.g Anglo-German Treaty) to Britano (e.g Britano-Zulu Accord). The Britano-Zulu Accord was also made today as an alliance between the Royalist faction of Zululand and New Britain

September 2, 2009: Aroostook Town Threatens to Secede: The town meeting of Aroostook, New Brunswick passed a resolution declaring they will leave the Provisional Republic of Aroostook if they ever come into conflict with.

August 31, 2009: Prince Andrew approves Canada: Diplomats have travelled to Canada to offer their support and bring word that the King approves of their new Governor-General system

August 20, 2009: New Britain gives money to Zululand:  has offered monetary support and arms to the Kingdom of Zululand.

August 17, 2009: The World Factbook is published. The publishes the first issue of The World Factbook.

August 17, 2009: New Britain and KwaXhosa sign a treaty: KwaXhosan and British leaders signed a treaty that agreed that KwaXhosa would pay 5% of their GDP as tribute to New Britain. KwaXhosa was also compelled to reduce and limit the size of their armed forces and become a member of the African Economic Community. New Britain has now requested membership of the League of Nations once again, claiming it is no longer occupying KwaXhosa.

August 12, 2009  suspends  The League of Nations voted to suspend New Britain of its observer status for its continued occupation of the.

August 06, 2009 Tonga: The MV Princess Ashika, an inter-island ferry operating in Tonga, sinks, leaving at least 26 people missing.

Recent additions
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Principal Content

 * Timeline - the general timeline of this ATL, providing the background and the timeline from 1983 up to the present day"


 * World Country Profiles - Profiles of described nations, territories and other self - governing bodies


 * [[Image:Flag_New_League_of_Nations(1983_Doomsday).png|40px]] League of Nations - The principal multilateral organisation of this ATL


 * Historical Articles - Collection of Historical Articles


 * Military Knowledge Database - Everything covering military technologies, ships, national armies etc. also military history!!


 * Science &amp; Technology - Section covering technological progress, developments &amp; difficulties


 * Geopolitics - Geopolitical background, Alliances, Cooperations, Rivalries


 * Economy, Trade, Traffic and Logistics - Background regarding economical topics


 * Nuclear Weapons - Post Doomsday's major problem of nuclear weapons still operating, out of control, terrorism etc.


 * NGO's


 * 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"


 * WCRB Media Archive - The WCRB Media Archive - documentations, footage, citations


 * 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.


 * WCRB - Permanent Doomsday Report A detailed report of the Sept 26, 1983 event including casualties, major destroyed targets, regularly updated

Contributors
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