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In this reality on September 26th 1983, Stanislav Petrov fails to stop the USSR from launching nuclear missiles at the US in retaliation for a fake US missile alert. The United States, Canada, Western Europe, Eastern Russia, Japan, Korea and populated sections of China are all annihlated. The only areas left untouched in the Northern Hemisphere are rural sections of Central Asia, Russia and America. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East fall into famine and chaos.

As nuclear winter sets in, the survivors are forced to flee south towards sanctuaries in South America, Australasia and Africa. Aside from harsh climates, the Southern Hemisphere is far more habitable than the Northern Hemisphere.

So what would happen to the world in the years following the 1983 nuclear war?
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