April 11, 1998
The first gangs form in Erie, Pennsylvania to seize by force what shelter, food and fuel the authorities can no longer provide. Soon the gangs are fighting each other, contributing to a precipitous decline in the population as violence, starvation and disease take their toll. Some civilians flee south while others risk the perilous voyage across the lake to the imagined safety of Canada.
As the floods subside American and Kenyan forces launch an offensive to drive the occupying Tanzanian Army from Kenyan territory south of Nairobi.
The mutinous crew of the Barrikada abandons ship, heading out on foot. Some (mostly Russians) head northwest for the nearest land, the Svalbard Islands. (Unofficially, the rest (overwhelmingly Ukrainians) heads south, dragging the ship's life rafts across the ice to make the passage across the Barents Sea to the Kola Peninsula.
Unofficially,
As promised, 24 hours after receiving target coordinates, 6th Fleet launches a flight of six Tomahawk cruise missiles at Soviet targets in the Balkans. Fired by the cruiser USS Normandy, destroyer USS Caron and sub USS Montpelier (two missiles each), the low-flying nuclear missiles hit the headquarters of the 9th Motor-Rifle Division and the 259th Motor-Rifle Division's 133rd Motor-Rifle Regiment. One of the missiles crashes prior to impact, and in another the warhead fizzles, yielding 1.2 kt rather than the 150 kt it was set for.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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