1997 - Nuclear Dawn
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In the west, NATO aircraft begin to conduct nuclear strikes deep into Poland, the Czech Republic and occupied Slovakia in an effort to slow down the Warsaw Pact's advance. The Pact responds likewise by nuking German industrial centers and port cities. NATO IRBMs are launched against industrial targets and port cities in western Russia. The tit for tat nuclear strikes continue throughout October in an ever-widening scale. Fearing a total nuclear war, neither side dare launch its ICBMs, or launch a large amount of missiles at once, in case the enemy regards it as the beginning of a massive attack and responds accordingly. Neither side is willing to step from the brink of total nuclear annihilation, and so they crawl over it, without fully realising what they have done until it is too late.
First the military targets are hit, after which the military-industrial targets are next. These are followed by the transportation and communications networks, the oil fields and refineries. Finally the industrial centers and oil refineries of neutral countries are attacked in order to deny them to the enemy. Many nuclear warheads are targeted against military supply depots and command centers. The nations' top political leadership is first decimated, then destroyed (almost by accident in some cases). The missile strikes continue spasmodically through November and December before gradually halting due to the collapsing chain of command.
In the midst of all the worldwide destruction India and Pakistan have their own nuclear war. Faced with defeat, Pakistan launches its nuclear attack against economically important targets in India as well as India's own nuclear arsenal in an effort to stave off the Indian retaliation. Despite the significant destruction of its industrial centers India has more than enough nuclear weapons for retaliation. The Indo-Pakistani War soon crawls to a halt as neither country is now able to feed its people, let alone continue to equip its military forces.
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