Connecticut was one of the original thirteen United States and part of New England. It traces its history to a Puritan settlement founded in 1636. Connecticut grew as an early center of American shipping and industry. As the New York City metro area sprawled out in all directions, it came to include much of southwestern Connecticut. The state was one of the most densely-populated in the nation.
Targets[]
A small state very close to the nation's largest city and financial capital, Connecticut was devastated by the Doomsday event of 1983. Targets included:
- Multiple nuclear missiles took out New York City and Long Island. The fallout spread towards the Long Island Sound, meaning towns such as Stamford and Norwalk were abandoned due to fallout.
- Hartford, as the largest city, state capital and educational hub, was struck with a 1MT warhead, detonating somewhere over the Front Street District. Despite his efforts, Gov. William A. O’Neill died in the strike, along with most of the state government and another 2 million civilians caught in the blast.
- New London was destroyed by a 500kt groundburst directed at the Groton Naval Yards.
To compound the state’s many problems, Connecticut Yankee and Millstone nuclear power plants experienced total meltdowns either during or shortly after the Doomsday event, devastating the lower Connecticut River and further irradiating the land and water.
Survivors[]
Immediately afterwards, the two most populous cities in Connecticut were Bridgeport and New Haven, home of Yale University. The city leadership formed a provisional government in the cities, but information after that is sketchy. However, from Vermont scouts, it seems that the two cities collapsed into anarchy sometime in 1988, presumably over dwindling supplies of food, based on an issue of the New Haven Register. Diaries were found in abandoned buildings as well, indicating that a local criminal group took over afterwards, instituting a harsh dictatorship. Sometime in the mid-1990s, an attempted citizen’s revolt resulted in a purging by the criminals. Whatever survivors were left fled towards Litchfield County.
The only sizable communities known to still exist in Connecticut are in Litchfield County, comprising the northwest corner of the state. The area has been reincorporated as a county of the Republic of Vermont. Vermont in fact claims the entirety of Connecticut's territory, though much of it remains unsafe for habitation, bar the areas around former Bridgeport and New Haven.
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