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 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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October 21, 2009, 10:43pm GMT: Battle off Cape Matapan:there has been a major Naval engagement of the Coast of Greece by the Hellenic and Sicilian Navies. No farther news is available yet on casualties and losses, as the battle is still ongoing as of 14:30 GMT.

October 21, 2009, 2pm GMT: FIFA retains confidence in Brazil's World Cup bid despite violence, announces 2014 bid to be awarded in December: LUQUE - FIFA expressed confidence that Brazil, considered the overwhelming favorite to be awarded soccer's 2014 World Cup, would be able to put on a safe tournament despite recent gang violence in Rio de Janeiro. Over the weekend, 21 people died in clashes between rival drug gangs in Rio. It happened as Brazil puts the finishing touches on its bids for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. FIFA also announced that the official awarding of the 2014 World Cup to Brazil, Siberia or the ANZC will now occur at FIFA's World Congress in Zurich this December. "It is best to do all of our business in one place, at one time," said FIFA Chairman Nicolas Leoz.

October 21, 2009, 2:50am GMT: Superior surprised by mysterious AM radio signal:  STOWE - Radio listeners throughout Superior scanning the AM radio dial Tuesday night were surprised to hear a broadcast abruptly begin at 9 a.m. local time on 860 AM, playing the song Deep in the Heart of Texas. The song repeated itself 11 times before an announcer identified the station as "KVRT AM 860, in Nacogdoches, the voice of the Republic of Texas." The song played 12 more times before the signal cut off. Some who heard the station called a Superior radio talk show later, either asking if it was a new local station trying to gain publicity or if it was a station out of West Texas. The mood changed after a caller mentioned that there were only four known 50,000-watt AM stations in North America, none at 860 AM. and that West Texas's station was at 550 AM. At 11 p.m,, news reports out of Billings and Deseret mentioned the signal being heard in those areas. The talk show host then spoke with a Great Lakes Broadcasting reporter who asked the Lake House for comment; she said that President Terrance Newman's press secretary told her and a few other reporters that Newman spoke with West Texas President Mike Conaway around 9:25 p.m. Conaway was said to acknowledge the signal had broadcast since early October, but only on a regional basis until Tuesday night. The press secretary said West Texas "sees no danger, but an obligation to explore the phenomenon." West Texas Radio - also broadcasting loud enough to heard in Superior at night - carried only a statement from Conaway's office, that the president, his cabinet and military leaders were aware of the situation and discussing options on how to proceed.

October 20, 2009, 5pm GMT: Douglas, Newman meet in Stowe:  STOWE - Vermont President Jim Douglas and Superior President Terrance Newman met this morning at the Lake House to discuss various matters, as well as to formalize diplomatic relations between their two countries. In a brief news conference at the Lake House, Douglas and Newman announced that the Vermont Embassy in Stowe and the Superior Embassy in Montpelier would officially open in November and named the countries' ambassadors and said both would settle in the embassies by next week. Newman also said he plans to visit Vermont early in 2010 and "looks forward to a new era of cooperation between two former American states, joined by our heritage and our desire to build a better world." Newman declined to comment on a question by a reporter asking if both leaders had discussed the Canada/Saguenay War, but Douglas briefly said "it is my hope that all sides can quickly come to a peaceful resolution in this dispute". Douglas and his party will stay overnight in Stowe, then leave for the Republic of Victoria in the morning.

October 19, 2009, 5pm GMT: Vermont set to officially apply for League of Nations membership: MONTPELIER - Vermont President Jim Douglas boarded a plane at Edward F. Knapp National Airport today to embark on a flight which will make stops in Superior, Victoria and Hawaii before making its way to the island of Tonga and the headquarters of the League of Nations. When the plane arrives in Tonga next week, Douglas is expected to personally deliver Vermont's request for LoN membership. At the stops along the way to Tonga, Douglas is expected to meet with Superior President Terrance Newman, Victoria Premier Jacob Birch and Hawaiian King Andrew I, on formalizing relations between their respective states, as well as other matters. Douglas's trip to Tonga comes as a bit of a surprise to observers, but he said he felt that given the importance of the League of Nations to Vermont, that it was best that he personally make the trip and application himself. He will be accompanied by many of his staffers, as well as Secretary of State Peter Welch.

October 19, 2009, noon GMT: Three more qualify for soccer's World Cup: LUQUE - Three more nations qualified over the weekend for the 2010 World Cup to be held next summer in the Celtic Alliance. The Kingdom of Cleveland qualified as the champion of Europe's Group A after winning 1-0 at Denmark on Saturday. The Sicily Republic qualified as the champion of Europe's Group B, clinching the title with a 4-1 win at Sweden. The East Caribbean Federation won 3-0 at Puerto Rico to grab one of the two qualifying berths from the CONCACAF region; the East Caribbeans finished second, though, one point behind champion Mexico, which beat Nicaragua 2-1 at Aztec Stadium in Mexico City. Twelve teams have qualified for the 16-team World Cup field; two more berths, from the Asia/Oceania region, will be determined after the final week of games October 31, and the other two berths in play-off series in November and December.

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