nuclear disaster

What would be the full international ramifications of a Indo-Pakistani nueclear war in 1999? How would the world react? How bad would the food shortages, cold, and radiation get? What countries would collapse? How would politics be effected?

(like numerous people I loved Hulu's take on "The Handmaid's Tale." I wanted to see how such a story could actually come about, though. That led to the creation of this thread.)...

"Most people say my Presidency began on October 11th, 2001. They're wrong, and not for the obvious reason. My Presidency began before I was even a candidate. It began in 1999 in the former Soviet Union with a man who just wanted to buy a new dishwasher and washing machine for his family."- The...

Assume some political catastrophe in the mid-twenty first century leads to nuclear war on the North American continent, wiping out most of the already-fragile power grid for both the US and Canada. I'm working on a story that involves a timeline suggesting that Canada's province of Quebec holds...

Wonder what the mood in South China is right now. Seriously, how long will it be until someone is forced to go in and squash that regime?

What would happen if in 2009 a Chinese nuclear missile was suddenly activated by mistake (North Korean hackers, a computer error, mistaken orders or etc) and was fired at San Francisco? The Chinese had no intention of launching the missile and are horrified that it is heading to America.

The Accident: The fire at the Windscale nuclear facility in 1957 still remains as one of the most serious disasters in the history of atomic energy, and whilst now it has been overshadowed in fame by Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daiichi it stands as easily the worst nuclear...