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"A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors--as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors."
President John F. Kennedy, address to the nation on the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 26 July 1963


The year was 2011. It had been a decade since the world had fallen under the cold shadow cast by terrorism and fear. Numerous conflicts and invasions in the “war against terror” had led to political turmoil and dangerous tension among the world’s great powers. At the same time, a precarious world economy based almost exclusively on the availability of all-too-exhaustible resources was finding itself facing the end of an age of prosperity, and this was an end that would not come peacefully.

They should have seen it coming.

On a day that began just like any other, the nation of America would suddenly find itself to be the target of the largest attack ever witnessed by human eyes. An unknown number of nations, coerced for years by a government that wished to see the spread of democracy at any cost, would suddenly rise up in violent rebellion. They would send into the skies their vast collective stockpile of nuclear weapons, hoping for no outcome other than the complete annihilation of the American people and the “evils” that they stood for.

But none could say what was truly good, and what was evil. And none could have imagined the hell that would be unleashed upon the human species on that most fateful of days.

Over the course of a few hours, the landscapes and skylines that Americans had previously held to be unchangeable were wiped from the face of the earth in an ungodly firestorm the likes of which this world had never seen. The warheads streaked down through the cloud lines, vaporizing a nation of cities and the millions of innocents who dwelled within them. They could not have known to expect it, and they could not have hoped to escape. They could only stare in horror as their world vanished before their eyes in a blinding flash, before they too were erased from this earth in the unrelenting carnage that ensued.

That was the day that America died. But she did not go down without a fight. In the moments before her cities were ravaged, her population of doomed innocents looked up to see the true might of the American armed forces, taking flight in the form of nuclear-tipped missiles and fully loaded bombers, soaring across the oceans to hand their attackers the same fate which they had bestowed upon the Land of the Free.

But in the end, it meant nothing. The Americans never learned of the effects their weapons of mass destruction had upon the cities and homes of their assailants. And even had they known, it would have done nothing to justify the unimaginable loss that was suffered by the entire human race on that day. The millions upon millions of lives, taken unjustly and in vain. The pristine landscapes, those rolling hills and amber waves of grain, reduced to nothing but dead, irradiated fields of gray ash and lifelessness. Those beautiful cities, now nothing more than charred steel skeletons and desolate streets cluttered with debris and the remnants of those who had once lived.

So much lost, and nothing gained. Nothing left to give reason to the survival of the select few who had made it to shelter before the bombs laid waste to their homeland.

And yet they were alive. Alive, and lost in a land that no longer resembled any part of what they had once called home. No hope for a better tomorrow, no refuge from the sickening desolation that was all around them. But they had seen what they thought to be the worst of it, and they had lived. They felt now that they were destined to survive, and that they would someday rise from the ashes and find themselves in a new world.

But in the wake of such horrible human atrocity, trust was no longer an option. Their world was now a dangerous and inhospitable wasteland, and there were not enough resources left for all who had lived. Survival would only be granted to those willing to fight for it.

And so they fought. They took to arms and vowed to destroy any who stood between themselves and their future. All of them so sure that they knew the path to salvation, yet none of them willing to work together in the fear that they might someday face another loss.

God save their tortured souls, and lead them down the true road to redemption. For the coming days will surely be among the darkest of them all.

It is now 2013.

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