Photos from 1983: Doomsday

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Hilo, capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
 

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2019 Dungeons & Dragons tournament in Adelaide, Australia. First created in the United States in 1974, the tabletop roleplaying game had gained great popularity up until Doomsday. However, some of the American refugees who settled in what would become the ANZC brought the game with them. It became very popular for many of the young former Americans as it provided some much needed escapism, soon attracting many young Australians or New Zealanders. In the decades that followed, the revitalised fantasy RPG quickly became more mainstream, and a source of inspiration for ANZC games, comics, novels and even animated series and movies.
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The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station near Kincardine, Ontario. Mostly complete on Doomsday, it was completed in the years after Doomsday after all of the survivor communities of Ontario finished it, with the last reactor completed in 2002. Since then, the facility has been a key facility for the survivor communities of London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton and Niagara Falls, providing the region with stable electric power and allowing the regions to begin some semblance of a recovery.
 
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An ALRV streetcar being tested out at the London Locomotive Plant before delivery in 1988. A short supply of motor fuel but abundant electricity and the existence of the massive former EMD locomotive plant in London, Ontario, led to the city as rapidly as possible expanding its surface rail network after Doomsday, as well as converting buses to electric operation in order to keep the city moving. This would be highly common in the former Eastern Canada and Eastern United States, as the CLRV and ALRV streetcar designs would see wide urban transit and interurban use in order to allow people to travel.
 
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Hamilton, Ontario, in the early 1990s before economic progress allowed the city's skyline to grow. Survivors from nuclear attacks on Toronto mostly headed southwest towards Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Hamilton and St. Catharines, causing the population of all of these areas to grow dramatically in 1983 and 1984, though causing many problems with housing conditions until improvements in supplies and prosperity allowed the city's conditions to dramatically improve, particularly once the Empire Corridor and the former CN and CP lines were re-established to the area in the early 1990s.
 
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Peruvian gun cruiser BAP Almirante Grau, off Malibu, California, in September 1985. After the collapse of the United States, Mexico requested in the early years after Doomsday assistance from Latin American allies in exploring the coasts of United States, and this is one such mission.
 
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Rock climbing in Toledo City, Rehiyon Ilongo, Philippines. This form of extreme adventure started out in the early 1980s by a group of college students and thrill seekers and continued even after Doomsday where it attracts thrill seekers coming from the ANZC, UKP, Japan, the SAC, New Britain, Socialist Siberia, and provisional United States.

(Made this post because I went Rock Climbing over the weekend near the same location in OTL).
 
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Cock fighting game in the Philippines, a tradition that was handed down by the Spaniards during the Colonial Era. After Doomsday, cock fighting still continues to this day and is seen in other areas formerly colonized by the Spanish Empire such as Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and Cuba.
 
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Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces in Angola. Deployed to assist the MPLA during the Angolan Civil War a few years before Doomsday, many of the Cuban soldiers were stranded in the country after World War III. They returned to Cuba in the late 1980s and reestablished the communist regime.
 
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Swedish Soldier Fires an AK5, 1980s.

Due to the Swedish neutrality in the Cold War, all of the Swedish cities and military installations were spared from a nuclear attack. This was the same fate of their neutral neighbor Finland.
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Prime Minister Olof Palme were awakened at 3:15 in the morning, Stockholm time, and were informed that the nuclear annihilation of the world had begun. After meeting the King Palme immediately sought contact with the Soviet Embassy and the American Embassy, both located in Stockholm.

With Sweden totally spared by nuclear holocaust in the Third World War, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme would make sure that the Swedish nation would not collapse. His plans were soon tested, however, as refugees from Denmark, would surge along Swedish borders. With a minimalistic army, the Swedish army was not successful in repelling Danish refugees, creating a larger Danish minority in Sweden. Palme served out the remainder of his term as Prime Minister, and was then succeeded as Prime Minister by Ingvar Carlsson in the 1988 general elections.
 
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A passenger plane crashes in I-95 in Georgia on Doomsday, evening of September 25, 1983. It was no doubt that thousands of aircraft around the world fell from the sky as EMP created from high altitude nuclear explosions took place concurrently as the USA and the USSR launched nuclear weapons on each other and their respective allies.

(Screenshot from 2009 film Knowing).
 
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In regions where elephants are present such as Africa and Southeast Asia. In addition to being a tourist experience, these huge animals have become alternate modes of transportation in an effort to conserve fuel for vehicles.
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Elephant ride in Thailand.
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Elephant carrying timber in Myanmar.
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Park rangers riding elephants patrolling the Tanzanian wilderness for poachers while a rhinocerous interacts with one of the elephants in the foreground. Even after Doomsday, poaching continues to be a problem.
 
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Pershing II MRBM test launch, February 1983.

The Pershing II missile, introduced in the early 1980s, was the US Army's nuclear theater ballistic missile. Based exclusively in West Germany, some were operated by the Luftwaffe (although the nuclear warhead was under the control of the US military at all times). The Pershing II was capable of throwing a thousand-pound W85 nuclear weapon, with a maximum yield of 80 kilotons, over 1,000 miles, and hit within 100 feet of the target half the time.
 
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial near Keystone, South Dakota. Due to the monument being located far away from major population centers and military bases, Mount Rushmore was spared from destruction on Doomsday. In current times, it has been considered to be a "pilgrimage site" among surviving Americans scattered around the world.
 
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