Collapse of the United States

2004

It is June 8, 2004. In OTL nothing important happens on this day. However in this alternate world something does happen. A employee of the United States government is working at a nuclear missile silo. His job is to inspect the missiles then write a report. In our timeline this didn't happen. However in this alternate timeline when inspecting the condition of one of the missiles he leans too far forward and falls over the railing. The drop to the bottom of the missile would kill of severely injure him, so he grabs for something to hold onto. He manages to grab onto some wires normally hidden by a panel, pulling them out. As he tries to hold onto something he accidentally pulls another part out. This causes the missile to begin its nuclear fission. It explodes. The rest of the nuclear missiles in the area explode too. The chain reaction reaches a reactor, causing an American Chernobyl. Soon more and more reactors and missiles explode. Fortunately no major cities were destroyed, just irradiated. The disaster causes widespread death and panic. Society collapses. The government falls apart very quickly. And all this happens while the rest of the world watches. The rest of 2004 is chaos in the former United States. Canada seizes Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Maine, Montana, Washington, and Idaho to help the populations there. Mexico invades Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, most of California, Utah, and Nevada. Cuba takes Puerto Rico. The United Kingdom retakes Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and most of New York. The UN tries to stop this, but to no avail. The Pacific territories and set up as a UN interdiction zone, except Hawaii.

2005

After the initial radiation passed many people questioned what to do now. By this point most towns and cities had either been abandoned or become a city-state. The UN tried to convince the people to put the United States back together, but were unable to contact most people. The first true government to rise out of the chaos was the Republic of Hawaii. Hawaii was untouched by the disaster, and thus kept the old state government. They also kept the old state flag. Not long after the Kingdom of South Florida was established, the king was the leader of the largest community in Florida. Their flag was the old florida flag, but the seal was a crown. Washington D.C. had been mostly abandoned due to the riots after the collapse. The small state of Deseret formed out of Utah, and became a Mormon theocracy. It kept the old flag of Utah, but Utah was changed to Deseret, and the date was changed to 2005. In the small town of Alton, in Illinois, a new nation formed. A small community gathered together and made a nation. It was the New United States of America. Their flag was yellow, because yellow was the color of hope, and had a blue canton in the corner. There was one white star in the canton, for the one state of Illinois. Nothing else interesting happened in 2005.

to be continued...