Photos from 1983: Doomsday

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Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. It hosted Costa Rican and US refugees after DD
 
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Reagan National Airport, formerly known as Torrington Municipal Airport. It is used almost entirely by the most elite government and military officials, as civilian flights are not yet feasible on any large scale. Torrington, D.K., USA
 
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The New Washington Monument in the final phases of construction. One of the many cherry trees that had been planted in Torrington to recreate the look of the original National Mall can also be seen in the photo.
 
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The former Union Pacific train depot in south Torrington, now named the Ray Hunkins Torrington Station, in honor of the first President of the reconstituted United States.
 
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Portions of the wreckage of Tu-95 shotdown by RCAF fighter jets on Doomsday. The Victorian government decided to let the remains of the aircraft stay as reminder of that fateful day in world history.
 
Wouldn´t the USSR use ICBMs? Instead of a Tupolev?
According to this article
When the bombs fell, the 409th interceptor squadron out of CFB Comox was scrambled for defense. Their efforts managed to prevent strikes on 3 targets in British Columbia: CFB Comox, CFB Esquimalt and Victoria, being targets of bombers rather than ICBMs. Once contact with Ottawa and Vancouver was lost, Premier Bill Bennett ordered the Canadian Forces bases under Provincial jurusdiction. Parliament declared a state of emergency and halted all travel from Vancouver Island. Ferries currently on route to Tsawassen and Horseshoe Bay were lost in the blast from the Vancouver ICBM, as well as many towns on the eastern coast of the Gulf Islands being destroyed. Nanaimo is devastated by the force of the blast as the harbour and ferry docks are heavily damaged by the resulting violent waves and concussive blast. Thousands die in the flooding and chaos. Days afterwards the Bennett government ordered two ships out of CFB Esquimalt to scout the mainland coast to survey the damage. Vancouver was in ruins, and the devastion reached from Blaine, WA to Gibsons, BC. Crews were sent to Tsawassen to facilitate repairs to the ferry dock. Once repairs were complete, refugees began being transferred from the mainland to Swartz Bay, where refugee camps had been set up to see to medical aid, and registration. Luckily for inhabitants of Vancouver Island and the refugees on the coast, the winds carried the fallout inland towards Abbotsford and Chilliwack. Once the trickle of refugees ended and registration complete, there were fewer than 60,000 survivors from a region than once housed nearly 2 million.
 
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