[Cdnwolf]

From Mediterranean Cruise...

The escalating nuclear exchanges struck Italy in late 1997.
Strikes on military targets turned into strikes on industrial targets
important to the war effort. After these came attacks on
economic targets of military importance. Italy had no oil deposits
of significance, but the Alps teem with hydroelectric power
generating plants, and these were deemed of sufficient military
importance to warrant destruction (several high-altitude bursts
did the job by electromagnetic pulse). Italy’s industrial north was
devastated, and the flood of refugees soon caused the civilian
government to collapse. A number of replacement governments
rose, lasted for a few months, and then fell.

Greece received its share of thermonuclear bombs in late
1997, and the government soon collapsed under the strain. A
military revolt. put a junta of generals in charge, who annexed
Macedonia but soon fell to fighting among themselves

The strike on Ankara destroyed the government, and attacks
on the ports and naval facilities on the Aegean and the Black
Sea crippled the Turkish military. The bomb intended for Istanbul
landed in the Sea of Marmara instead. The waves from the
blast inflicted serious damage on the port facilities in the city,
but left its buildings mostly intact.

With the strategic exchanges of late 1997, the Ploesti oil fields
of Romania were the subject of some nuclear strikes, but for
reasons not completely understood, the refineries and oil production
facilities were not completely destroyed and were beginning
to become operational again by mid-2000.