Nuclear Apocalypse

The Bear

 * On August 2nd, 1974, a bear was climbing the fence of a nuclear missile silo in Florida.
 * The bear was mistaken by the U.S. military as a Russian spy.
 * Alarms went off at the silo and the USAF base near it, planes were scrambled and nuclear weapons were loaded.
 * The Soviet Union detected this scrambling, and mirrored the actions of the U.S.
 * Both sides believed that the other was preparing to launch nuclear weapons.
 * Attempts to defuse the situation had failed.

Nuclear War

 * Missiles are launched from silos around the world, at the U.S., Soviet Union, and their many allies.Easy_buster_cropped.jpg
 * Nations, seeing that nuclear weapons are incoming, launch their own in response.
 * The policy of mutually assured destruction would be the world's downfall, as there was an immense amount of nuclear weapons on the planet.
 * No nation was safe from the atomic blast, governments around the world crumbled as billions died.

Survival
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 * Top ranking U.S. officials would retreat to an oil rig off the coast of the United States.
 * They had contingency plans if this event were ever to occur.
 * They planned to study the effects of radiation from off the coast, then return to the United States to rebuild America.
 * The Soviet Union had similar plans, but most of their land was largely unaffected by the war.
 * The large amount of Soviet land that was unpopulated ensured that there was at least some fertile territory.
 * Both sides were unaware that the other had survived the destruction, but their eyes turned to their own nations once more.