1983: Doomsday

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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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Introduction
The Point of Divergence of the 1983: Doomsday-Timeline is September 19th, 1983 on which a seemingly unimportant decision to send an ambitious Colonel of the USSR to a training seminar, taking the place of an ill-plagued colleague, has global implications.

This decision leaves to a different outcome of a well-known though often underestimated event that took place on September 26, 1983.

In our timeline, on that day, Colonel Stanislav Petrov was the 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. In our timeline, 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 nuclear weapons, in the belief it was a "counter-strike", not a first-strike.

Consequently, since in our timeline the world 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 Cold War. Colonel Petrov has been honored as one of the few true "world saviors" and several investigations have proved the seriousness of this event.

This Timeline postulates the results after Colonel Petrov being sent to another installation before September 26th, 1983. The officer now on duty on September 26th considers the alert as being accurate 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 too late. Thousands of nuclear warheads consequently detonate at targets worldwide. 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 this 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 that are seemingly impossible.

After an incredibly horrifying 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 are formed and a new, fragile world order emerges. 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 conflicts 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" brought mankind to the edge of total extinction, the foundation of the new "League of Nations" on September 26th, 2008- has shown a glimmer of hope for a possibly more peaceful future for mankind...

But nonetheless, new dangers are emerging all around the globe, threatening most of what has been achieved within the last 25 years...

WCRB NewsHour- World Headlines
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April 23, 2010, 9:00pm GMT (April 24, 9:00am local time): League of Nations admits the Yukon as newest member state:

NUKU'ALOFA - The League of Nations' Council Assembly approved a resolution admitting the Yukon as its newest member state. The request by the Yukon, an associated state of Australia-New Zealand had caused controversy, with some critics, led by the South American bloc, contending that the sparsely populated survivor state in the Canadian Arctic had been "manufactured" by ANZ in order to add a loyal ally to its own voting bloc. The Yukon found a surprising supporter last week in Nigerian Delegate Oluyemi Adeniji, whose impassioned speech on the Yukon's behalf is thought to have swayed a number of swing votes. The Council Assembly approved the Yukon with less than 65% of the vote, considered very thin margin for an ANZ-affiliated state, many of which were founding members of the League. In her country's first address to the LoN, Delegate Katherine Van Bibber said that membership in the League would be both an honor and a responsibility, and that "the Yukon is fully participate in the international community". Messages of welcome were offered by delegates from each of the League's regional committees.

April 23, 2010: Botswanan troops ocupy some lawless zones in Angola: Botswanan troops have ocupied some sections of the Okavango river and civil engineers have started construction on a canal. This has drawn condemnation from the Angolan survivor states. The president said that "This is a great day for our beloved nation, today Botswana will end its time as a landlocked nation!".

April 21, 2010, 9:25pm GMT: Costa Rican military operation declared successful; protests turn violent in Limón: SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica - A military invasion of the coastal settlement of Barra del Colorado has been a success, the Costa Rican government announced late Wednesday. Barra del Colorado lies on the Nicaraguan border and was described as the last stronghold for Contra guerrillas in northern Costa Rica. Early Wednesday morning, Costa Rican army troops were helicoptered into the Barra del Colorado region. Patrol boats of the Siberian Expeditionary Forces, in the Caribbean since April 12, supported the operation, and Siberian marines joined the Costa Ricans soon after landings began. In Puerto Limón, capital of the Limón Autonomous Region, protesters clashed with riot police in the latest outbreak of violence in this often turbulent coastal province. Edwin Patterson, president of the Limón Autonomous Region, would not condone the violence but nevertheless strongly criticized Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Siberia's "needlessly heavy-handed" policies in Contra-controlled areas.

April 21, 2010: The fifth GLONASS satellite, the "Bartolomeo Diaz" is officially launched from Guiana Space Center: Guiana Space Center, Guyane- Earlier today the SAC space agency, alongside their ADC and Guyane counterparts, successfully launched the fifth satellite of the GLONASS network into orbit. A week from now, on the 28th, the sixth satellite is going to be launched, which will mark the official end of the first phase of the ambitious project.

April 20, 2010, 6:00am GMT: Scandinavian Airlines System resumes flights:        TRONDHEIM, Norway - The Scandinavian Airlines System, national flag carrier for the Nordic Union, resumed commercial air travel early this morning after grounding its flights for nearly a week as volcanic ash darkened northern Europe's skies. Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted on April 14 and rendered the entire region unsafe to fly. Late last night the Nordic Union's Transportation Ministry gave the SAS permission to resume flights after test flights demonstrated that the cloud is safely passable. The Nordic Union has one of the most extensive air travel networks in the world.

April 18, 2010, 13:31pm GMT: King Andrew arrives in Victoria: VICTORIA, Victoria- King Andrew arrived in the capital city od the Commonwealth of Victoria today and was received with much celebrations. He went to Parliament where he was greeted by the Premier Jacob Birch. He thanked King Andrew for 'making such a great journey to visit Victoria and spend time with his loyal subjects'. King Andrew says that this is 'a part of a journey across the countries of North America and indeed the world that I am king of and to respect the loyalty of those peoples who have recognised the crown all these years despite the fact we have been separated for so long'.

April 15, 2010, 12:00pm GMT: Rescue efforts continue one day after northern Tibetan earthquake: SHIGATSE, Tibet - Buddhist monks, the Tibetan Armed Forces, and other relief workers continue to brave difficult conditions as they search for survivors of a devastating 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the town of Jyekundo yesterday, the Tibetan government reports. Temperatures around Jyekundo remain near freezing, and the relief workers' long hours make even the experienced mountaineers susceptible to headaches and nausea resulting from altitude sickness. The earthquake struck a Tibetan frontier region where the government's control is weak, and much local authority rests with monastic leaders and village heads. Despite "heroic cooperation" by locals and massive aid from the government, including the mobilization of nearly its entire helicopter fleet, progress in the remote area remains slow because of its distance from the capital and its difficult terrain. The Dalai Lama, religious leader and constitutional monarch of the Himalayan kingdom, has led the country in almost hourly prayers since news of the quake reached the capital, reportedly sleeping very little. In a statement, he asked the world to join him in praying for the victims and their families.

April 14, 2010, 9:00pm GMT: No Self-Government for Panama Canal Zone: PANAMA CITY - A proposal to create a representative government for the Panama Canal Zone failed by a 3-2 vote of the South American governing commission, in a decision that hints at wider disagreements between members of the South American Confederation. The vote saw the three permanent members of the commission, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, oppose the two members for a five-year term, Brazil and Peru. The official statement from the office of High Commissioner José Noritz, an admiral in the Ecuadorian Navy, states that "the security situation of the Canal Zone remains precarious. Introducing a new system now would only invite more instability."

April 13, 2010: Siberian Foreign minister Sergey Sobyanin visits Ethiopia: ADDIS ABEBA. Ethiopia- Sobyanin's visit marks the first expansion of the CSTO since its creation two months ago. After some deliberation, members of the Confederation of African Marxist Countries, namely Ethiopia, Eritrea and South Sudan, decided to join the CSTO as regional partners, the three countries would have become full members but logistical problems prevented it. The Ethiopian minister also proposed a new organisation similar to the old Comitern to be known as the which would provide a place of cultural discusion for all Marxist countries.

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