AH Vignette: Red is the color of Blood

Geico

Banned
The President was sitting in the Oval Office reading the latest CIA reports. Things were looking bad in Asia, but just got a lot worse. Actually, it was a disaster never before seen before. Sweet rolled his face, his hands shaking as he put the papers down. "Call Moscow again, in God's Nanette we have to stop this" the President said to an aide. But there was no point, all contact was lost with Moscow.

He sat back in his chair. He remembered his childhood, ducking and covering his head under his school desk. He learned how the evil communist were taking Asia with the world next. Never did he think that the two largest communist nations in the world would fight each other. A year before the US government would have welcomed their two biggest enemies blowing each other to Kingdom Come. Not him, he wanted to do more on Education and Healthcare.

So far not a single Western target has been hit. But it looks like their allies were hit. North Korea and Vietnam going up in Mushroom Clouds. Still, radiation would be spreading globally killing thousands if not millions with cancer. Plus the weather changes killing crops worldwide. If the war didn't spread to the US. The Secret Service was moving him to the White House bunker, while the Armed Forces were put on Defcon 2 world wide. A step he did not want to take in fear of poking the Russian bear.

The next mourning, the damage was taken in. China was almost completely de-populated, with the survivors as refugees. China as a nation was note more. The Soviet Union was only slightly better off. All military and civilian targets in Siberia were nuked as was Moscow and the other major cities. Riots have broken out in the Warsaw Pact nations, and the Russian army deserted. No word from Korea or Indo-China, but all contact was lost. People were dying in Japan of cancer. Around the world temperatures cooled.

The President did not get any sleep, and now he had to address the nation. The next century would be one of hardship. In a single hour more people died then any other moment in history. His dreams of space travel, Universal Healthcare, and huger education for all was over. It was a dark and cold world, a scary one.
 
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