Today at ten past twelve, the United States of America - in defiance of international sanctions - detonated a second H-Bomb in an off-shore test exceptionally close to their maritime border with the Republic of New England. President Blackstone today declared this to be a 'legitimate demonstration of America's right to self-defence against the treacherous warlord states that surround us, and their foreign masters'.
The leaders of the other nations of North America - including the Republic of Greater California, the Dominion of Canada and the Dominion of Newfoundland - have condemned the test, as have wider alliance systems including the British Commonwealth, European Union and the Asia-Pacific Co-Prosperity Alliance. Prime Ministers Cameron and Abe have been particularly vocal in their condemnation of a 'rogue state that refuses to recognise the march of history'.