OT or Not OT: Twilight 2030

[Targan]

Originally Posted by RN7

Why confine things to North America? Two world wars were fought which barely affected America.

I think perhaps I'm not explaining myself very well. The question came up in this thread on how you could realistically have a world war in 2030 and have everybody come out poorly, as in traditional T2K. It was (correctly) pointed out that the US is the world's dominant military force and even in a multi-fronted conflict would still almost certainly come out on top for the forseeable future. My biowar suggestions were a way of "evening the playing field" so to speak.

Originally Posted by RN7

7) Natural disaster: The only two scenarios that I could envisage that would seriously harm the American economy would be if the San Andreas Fault ruptured and California slipped into the Pacific, or if a mile wide sized asteroid impacted on the East coast and took out New York City, Washington DC and other big Eastern cities.

I'd add to those 2 an eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera that occurs every 650,000 years or so.