Great Nuclear War

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This timeline explores the broken world left by the Great Nuclear War - October 28, 1962.

The world's most devastating conflict has destroyed the world of the 60's and left a planet of ashes and ruins for humanity to piece together, all due to the choice of one man.

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Introduction

US President John F. Kennedy makes a very grave decision on October 20 of that very same year: to invade Cuba in response to Soviet Missiles discovered by a hapless U-2 plane. This invasion ultimately leads to the final World War everyone feared. But it was an end; but rather the preface to a new volume of human history. In the years since, much has happened.

Timeline of Crisis

16: US U-2 plane discovers soviet missiles in Cuba

17: US troops are moved to the southeast 

18: President Kennedy is visited by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko 

20: Kennedy decides on invasion, and a speech is prepared to notify the american public 

22: President Kennedy phones former Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower to brief them on the situation. 

Kennedy briefs the cabinet and congressional leaders on the situation.

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan informed by telephone

7:00 PM; American Public informed of Invasion Plans

23: Project Greek Island enacted; Congress Moved to Greenbrier and Pentagon moved to Raven Rock 

US Marines/Navy move into position around Cuba

Weak blockade is put into effect

24: US makes landfall in Cuba

Soviet Premier forewarns Kennedy against further activity

Pope John XXIII implores peace of Soviet Premier

25: US captures Santiago 

Castro sends word to the USSR

26: Rioting breaks out outside Soviet Embassy

United Nations continues open debate

Soviet Premier Sends aide to Cuba, attempting to break the US’s naval blockade

27: US forces are met by Soviet carpet bombings after blockade is broken and Soviet aircraft carriers enter Caribbean Waters

28: Great Nuclear War

30: US Navy retreats to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

This war has many names. The Great Nuclear War, World War III, the Rapture, but no matter what you call it, targets worldwide were destroyed, and the results of this total nuclear exchange are close to the frantic forecasts of the General Public. This results in more than a billion people killed initially, and another billion in the Winter of 1962 and the following famines and fallout.

With the world largely devastated, and most of the Northern and parts of the Southern Hemisphere in ruins, the estimated survivors in these areas desperately try to keep together what is left of their societies. They are facing challenges that we would consider third-world today.

After an horrifying first few years Post-War, a few regions, territories, and countries stabilize and master basic problems such as food, water, and defense. As time passes and the recovery continues, new (sometimes shocking) nations are formed. The fragile new world order emerges and it soon become obvious that initial hopes of some survivors for a united mankind (or at least warfare and destruction being ended forever) are indeed naive. Famine, disease, and lack of resources provoke conflicts and wars in large parts of the world, potentially threatening all recovery.

New dangers to this fragile world have emerged all throughout, destroying some of what has been accomplished in the last 50 years...

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