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.

Missiles are launched from silos around the world, at the U.S., Soviet Union, and their many allies.
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.

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.