1983: Doomsday

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INTRODUCTION
The Point of Divergence of the 1983: Doomsday- ATL 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 a single US Nuclear Missile 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 dangerousity of this event.

This ATL postulates the results of 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 nuclear soviet 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 detonate at targets worldwide, though 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 would have been close to the forecasts of almost complete worldwide destruction and "nuclear winter" as predicted by many scientists of the day, resulting in as much as two billion people killed initially, possibly another two billion in the subsequent environmental disaster.

This ATL currently covers the nearly 25 years after the event -quickly named as the biblical "Doomsday"- from the direct aftermath up to the present day.

The world largely devastated, most of the northern and a lot 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 the basic problems of food and medical supply. As time passes and the recovery continues, new - sometimes suprising- alliances and a new, fragile world order emerge and manifest. Initial hopes in the population of 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, pandimias and lack of resources provoke skrimishes and wars in large parts of the world thus often crushing all recovery.

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

And now, nearly exactly 25 years after Doosmday bringing mankind at the edge of total extinction, the planned foundation of a revived "League of Nations" on September 26th 2008- awakens a glance of hope for a possibly more peaceful future for mankind...

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

to profiles of surviving nations, territories and other self - governing bodies, sorted by contintent.
 * World Country Profiles

the legitimate successor organization to the United Nations, the foundation of the League of Nations will be held on September 26th, 2008 in memorial of 25 years after 1983 Doomsday.
 * [[Image:Flag_New_League_of_Nations(1983_Doomsday).png|40px]]   League of Nations

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


 * NGO's

Geopolitical background, Alliances, Cooperations, Rivalries
 * Geopolitics

background regarding economical topics
 * Economy, Commerce, Traffic and Logistics

= EXTRAS- Images, Statistics, Figures etc. =

diverse maps displaying the situation from 1983-2008
 * Maps

''gallery of the flags as defined by August 2008"
 * Flags

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

collection of information regarding important persons, divided in fictional, non-fictional
 * People

languages spoken in the world before Doomsday, immediately after and in 2008, political, commercial and cultural languages
 * Languages

collection of external material relevant and linked to the theme of this ATL (links, images, quotations etc. --> just opened so migh be a bit empty
 * Externals

=Remarks / Editorial notes=

'+++++If anyone wants to add content but due to any problems with English is hesitating please feel free to contribute as well. Translations/Cleanups into English should be possible when looking the languages spoken in the WCRB++++' ''This ATL is being maintained and coordinated by the different worldwide branches of the WCRB - World Census and Reclamation Burau:

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Disclaimer 1:

''This ATL basically is an open timeline. So feel free to insert, add and edit. Nonetheless new edits will be reviewed/harmonized to keep everything logical. Please do not n o t insert aliens, magic or too supernatural elements - as this ATL is quite fictional on its own ^^. ''

Disclaimer 2:

''This ATL is intended to be a "current" or "Parallel" - ATL where everything happens within the same time frame like OTL. So please try to avoid Future History. ''