Is there a canon timeline for Feb. 21st anywhere? (Protect and Survive)

TheKinkster

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Has anyone actually come up with a canon timeline for the sequence of events on the day of the nuclear exchange? Had an idea for something but I do NOT want to have to go back to square one because of a screwup with what is considered Protect and Survive canon at this point.
 
Has anyone actually come up with a canon timeline for the sequence of events on the day of the nuclear exchange? Had an idea for something but I do NOT want to have to go back to square one because of a screwup with what is considered Protect and Survive canon at this point.

What I've worked with

0655 EST / 1155 GMT Kassel bomb goes off.

0930 EST / 1430 GMT Soviets reply

1255 EST / 1755 GMT US EAS activated.

1258 EST / 1758 GMT Vulcan bombers scrambled.

1300 EST / 1800 GMT Soviet missiles detonate over New York.
 
What I've worked with

0655 EST / 1155 GMT Kassel bomb goes off.

0930 EST / 1430 GMT Soviets reply

1255 EST / 1755 GMT US EAS activated.

1258 EST / 1758 GMT Vulcan bombers scrambled.

1300 EST / 1800 GMT Soviet missiles detonate over New York.

I agree with most of this, though I doubt New York would have been destroyed that quickly. For a more plausible time frame, I'd suggest anywhere from 1315/1815 to 1345/1845.
 

TheKinkster

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I recall seeing SOMEWHERE that there was close to an hour between the activation of the EAS and the commencement of the strategic exchange. Don't know which thread it was in...

I think it's important to agree on what is canon for this, ESPECIALLY for the timeline of events on the 21st.
 
I agree with most of this, though I doubt New York would have been destroyed that quickly. For a more plausible time frame, I'd suggest anywhere from 1315/1815 to 1345/1845.

The initial wave of missiles could have come from a Soviet submarine in the Atlantic, followed by ICBMs or nukes dropped from Soviet bombers.
 
Can we assume from the Lieutenant's experience (or more precisely from what we're told, since we don't know how much time passes between his losing consciousness and his body being charred), by which I mean there's no mention of any flash from other detonations, that the one that got his body, which must have been relatively close (it wasn't in Lower Manhattan, say), was the first one to hit the city or else simultaneous with others?
 
The initial wave of missiles could have come from a Soviet submarine in the Atlantic, followed by ICBMs or nukes dropped from Soviet bombers.

That's definitely true. Although according to Chipperback's TL, the cities didn't start really going up 'til about 1230 CST/1830 GMT, so I figured I'd just go by that. ;)

@Phil(can I call ya Phil?): I would have thought so as well.
 
Can we assume from the Lieutenant's experience (or more precisely from what we're told, since we don't know how much time passes between his losing consciousness and his body being charred), by which I mean there's no mention of any flash from other detonations, that the one that got his body, which must have been relatively close (it wasn't in Lower Manhattan, say), was the first one to hit the city or else simultaneous with others?

My concept:

New York City is a key communications center and would go out in the first wave.

The blast that got New York City was one MIRV warhead with 10 to 14 500 kt bombs fired from a Soviet submarine close to American waters. 1315 or so.
 
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