The Third World War: told in newspaper articles.

quite inevitable ..The Nuclear option was NATO's main defense against a Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe.

post WWII, it would be impossible to keep DIRECT confrontation of the Soviet and Western European powers on the level of a WORLD war with MAD. just not possible, someone is going to dip into the cookie jar.
 
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]This is [/FONT]Yuri Victorovitch Romanenko[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] on board Soviet Space Station MIR.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Day is March 10th 1987.. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I am Broadcasting and recording this transmission in case i do not make it back to my beloved Mother Russia.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It seems as though the world has gone insane over the last months. and it has culminated in the systematic murder of millions and millions of people, not only in Mother Russia, but around the world. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Such tears it brings to my eyes as i look down on our blue world to see the bright flashes of atomic explosions taking place around the globe. I watched as Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, [/FONT]Bikanur Kosmodrome, Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Paris, London, Washington D.C., New York City, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles were all obliterated in a matter of hours.

What possessed this posturing that everyone thought they could back down from. What made them think anyone could win this war. All of our progress, All of our great cities, and works, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beatles, John Wayne, picaso, rembrant. Even the Mighty Pyramids that stood for thousands of years, gone. Red Square, where I would go to play chess with my grand-father, gone. such sadness fills my heart, for if and when we leave MIR we will be the last men in space. there may be no others to see the world as we have.

Now we sit and watch as fires rage across Europe, Russia and America. We watch as the world we knew and possessed high hopes for burns. I had hoped to one day have Amarican Astronauts come visit us here in MIR. I hoped to one day visit NASA or watch my children who .. who..... <long breath and choking voice> are no longer with me.. <long pause again> would grow up to be cosmonauts and go to moon or mars.
<sound of tears and crying>

We have rations for another 30 days if we stretch them... then will have no choice but to return to what is left of Earth.

We will broadcast more at a later time.

This is Captain Yuri Romanenko of the Soviet Space Station MIR Signing off

Maybe the best post on this entire thread.

No matter how WWIII would develop, if anyone started with nukeing the others "in defence", humanity (along with most of the enviroment) would be f***** up seriously, even if thousands survived.

This post just sums up well the feelings of anyone, who would survive the whole conflict - mainly, if they were to be in the place of the astronauts : Safe, but totally trashed by what they saw... I would never even hope to leave Mir and return to Earth. For what ? A radiated enviroment affected also by nuclear winter, which will gradually cause a new mass extinction in Earth's natural history ? And collapsing remnants of what was once civilization, society... and even more haunting... normal humans ? And I mean humans - not poor and miserable beings degenerated into mindless animals suffering from radiation sickness... :(
 

burmafrd

Banned
From early 70's to probably about 1983 the Soviets had a shot at a conventional win in Europe. By 1984 the US Army had rebuilt itself to the point that it was no longer possible. As we now know the Red Army had a lot more weaknesses then many thought at the time, and NATO's modernization was more then a generation ahead of the Warsaw Pacts.
Personally I think the best shot the Soviets had was about 1978, which was about the worst that the US Army was in Europe. From that point on it started to improve, and rapidly by 1981. Once the Army received the Abrams, Bradleys and APache systems, they were so far in advance of anything the Warsaw Pact had that it was laughable.
 
Miami Herald, March 7th, 1987


We have now compiled a list of American cities attacked by Warsaw Pact nuclear weapons.

Washington, D.C.

New York, NY

Bangor, ME

Atlanta, GA

Detroit, MI

Kansas City, MO

Minneapolis, MN

Chicago, IL

Denver, CO

San Francsico, CA

Seattle, WA

As well as 45 other weapons directed at various missile silos and military installations not directly associated with major cities, including NORAD at Cheyenne Mountian. Though the base took a direct hit, it is still functioning as a command post, albeit heavily damaged, according to the few reports being gathered from that part of the nation.

We can confirm that the President, George H. W. Bush, is alive and well, and has set up an interim capital at Little Rock, AR.

A cease-fire has already been arranged with the interim Soviet government, belived to be based in or near Khubyshev.

A complete list of targets hit in the rest of NATO and in the nations of the Warsaw pact os still spotty at best, but we can confrim from AP reports, that the city of London, England has been more than 80% destoryed, has has the city of Berlin, Germany.

Most of Germany, both East and West, is belived to be heavily damaged or destoryed, and may very well now be uninhabitable.

Death tolls are too high to count, but it is belived that over 70 million people are dead in the US alone. Some fear that the ultimate death toll may be near half a billion, and the enviromental dmage done can not yet be tallyed.

Limited conatct has been reestablished with the governments of the UK and France, and we can confirm that Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Thatcher are alive and well in Harrogate. The whereabouts of the French President are unkown.

We now know the cost of all-out nuclear war, and it is indeed dear. And yet, officials with the military have informed the Herald that this was a limited exchange.

And yet this limited exchange has left Germany totaly destoyed, President Reagan dead, the Congress and out national capital wiped out, and a death toll of more than 70 million, a toll that can only rise.

Europe has had so many weapons detonated on its soil, that it may well become almost uninhabitable, and there are some who have heralded this as the beginning of a new Dark Age for Euorpe, and perhaps the rest of the world as well.

It will be years, or more likely decades before we can restore order and the rule of law to some areas of our own nation, and we may never be turely whole again.

Due to the rationing imposed on the "Miami Survival Zone" as it is now being called by our administrators out of Homestead AFB, this will be the last issue of the Herald that will be published for some time to come.


As Editor I can only ask all of our readers to try and stay safe, and to survive, if not for yourselves, then for your children, and children yet unborn. Perhaps, someday, this world can be made whole again.


Good Luck, and God Bless.

-The Editor.

Interesting that San Diego, CA was left off the list. The area around San Diego is probably the largest concentration of United States Navy facilities and personnel in the world. Nuking San Diego eliminates the top level of the chain of command for the Pacific Fleet along with most of its infrastructure. Omaha, NE would have been a logical target as well, being adjacent to Offut Air Force Base, headquarters for the US Strategic Air Command (and the command and control facility for the US bomber fleet). Both cities were at the top of the Soviet target list during the Cold War.
 

Anaxagoras

Banned
Interesting that San Diego, CA was left off the list. The area around San Diego is probably the largest concentration of United States Navy facilities and personnel in the world.

Actually, I think Norfolk, Virginia, takes that prize.
 
Actually, I think Norfolk, Virginia, takes that prize.

Meant to include Norfolk in my original post. It was also at the top of the list for the Soviets. Destroy San Diego and Norfolk and the United States Navy worldwide is effectively decapitated. And yet the USSR in this timeline seems to neglect them in the first round...
 
March 24th, 1987

World Not Abiding By Global Cease Fire
Isolated Nuclear Detonations Continue, in Spite of Global demands for Calm
"We had taken for granted that things could not become worse than they already are"

Eyewitness accounts that Manchester and Lillehammer have suffered submarine based nuclear attacks, despite global calls for peace. With the world's armed forces in shambles and many national governments entirely destroyed by attacks, hundreds of nuclear weapons remain unaccounted for.

84 dead, hundreds wounded on Swiss Border
'Pathetic Mob' dispersed with lethal force

Using one of the last working communication hubs in Europe, Swiss news agencies reported today that yesterday's clash with 'desperate masses' was the worst yet after two full weeks of intensified conflict. After warnings were ignored and a single gate broken by the mob, the Swiss Army resorted to lethal force to maintain order on its border. The Swiss government expressed remorse for the incident but remarked that "we must see to our own survival"

Public Safety Announcement:
Rainwater unfit to drink
Although Brazil is far away from any nuclear detonation, air currents and cloud systems are carrying unsafe amounts of radioactive fallout. Until further notice, remain inside during precipitation of any kind.
 
Interesting that San Diego, CA was left off the list.

Cheyenne was left off too, in spite of the air base and the nukes... not to mention, it's a state capital, and I think the Soviets had all of them targeted... in my earlier post, I put it down to a control glitch... :)
 
Can we start over again with the original premise. President Carter in 1987? And have everybody agree not to go overboard with the nukes?

I really enjoyed this, until all the pissing matches started
 

Chilperic

Banned
Can we start over again with the original premise. President Carter in 1987? And have everybody agree not to go overboard with the nukes?

I really enjoyed this, until all the pissing matches started

I'd be game for it. I stopped posting when it just became a game of 'Spam that nuke'
 
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