You Only Live Twice
So, I'm about to start dinner the other night, and turn on the TV just for some background noise. A familiar opening followed by a guitar riff told me a James Bond was starting.
Within five minutes, a US Gemini Space capsule had been captured and presumed destroyed, and a very angry American diplomatic official was warning a his Soviet counterpart that in 20 days, the US would launch another space mission, and any interference would be considered an act of War. The Soviets were all innocent, insisting they knew nothing about it, which only made the American more annoyed.
Within another 10 minutes, James Bond had been laid, killed buried at sea in Hong Kong harbor, taken aboard a British sub, briefed on the way to Japan, and shot out of a torpedo tube. Some guys have all the fun :-)
At any rate, if Bond was running a little late, here is a fine reason for a mid-60s T2K-style setting, if that is to your tastes. You could even have your band of survivors working against Ernst Blofeld's bullies in the wake of a limited nuclear war.
Uncle Ted
(or to be true to the period, the Ted from U.N.C.L.E.)
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