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.