The long dark

Wednesday. January 1st, 2020.

07:43PM

Tensions escalate between Russia and NATO over disputes on Ukraine. I the hopes of halting the US-NATO advance, I Russia launches a nuclear warning shot from a base near the city of Kaliningrad and NATO retaliates with a single tactical nuclear airstrike

10:51PM

As the nuclear threshold is crossed. Fighting escalates to a tactical nuclear war in Europe. Russia sends three hundred nuclear warheads via aircraft and short range missiles to hit NATO bases and advancing troops. NATO responds with approximately two hundred nuclear warheads via aircraft.

11:22PM

With Europe destroyed, NATO launches a strategic nuclear strike of seven hundred warheads from US land and submarine based missiles armed at Russian nuclear forces. Meanwhile Russia request help from the North Korean government to cripple the US Japan based forces to prevent air support for the advancing fleet. In response China aids the US to destroy the North Korean nuclear forces, enforcing the international treaty signed thereby effectively removing North Korea from the nuclear war.

Thursday. January 2nd, 2020

01:12AM

Before losing its weapons system, Russia launches missiles of five to ten warheads per city depending on the population size from silos, road vehicles, trains and submarines at the thirty most populated cities in Europe, with the aim of inhibiting the others recovery and NATO retaliates in kind.

04:30AM

After nine hours of escalated conflict, about forty three million people perished and approximately seventy five million sustained various degrees of injury and are displaced from their homes. Very few truly believed that the third world war would be so short and devastating.