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--- timelines:protect_and_survive_universe_chronological_timeline [2015/09/01 22:46] – [1.) Build-up to The Exchange (1982-21 February 1984)] Tsar of New Zealand
+++ timelines:protect_and_survive_universe_chronological_timeline [2019/03/29 15:13] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 **1445 ZULU/8:45 AM CST** - Governor Thompson makes a speech informing the citizens of Illinois about the two nuclear detonations in Germany.
+**Roughly 15.00** - Communication between Reagan and Ogarkov. The latter demands NATO retreat to France and a "natural Soviet border at the Rhine." Reagan's response is terse: "General Secretary, regrettably, we are at an impasse."
+**1530 ZULU** - As the ceasefire breaks, Soviet forces initiate use of nerve gas, delivering 8 SCUD missiles along the front. One lands in Hamburg.
 **16:00** - Last-minute emergency preparations still being made in various parts of Europe, including the British Isles.
-**1745 ZULU/11:45 AM CST** - Word reaches the University of Illinois about the tactical exchange in Europe. Both Urbana-Champaign and Carbondale prepare for an all-out strategic exchange.
+**16.25** - Over the objections of a majority of his generals (Sergei Akhromeyev in particular), Ogarkov orders the deployment of more chemical weapons as well as biological agents as NATO retaliates with a nerve gas strike of its own on Brno, Czechoslovakia.
-**1753 ZULU/11:53 AM CST** - The EAN is received by Urbana-Champaign and Carbondale.
+**~16.30 - 17.30** - Chemical/biolgical attacks steadily escalate, with better protective gear (and horrendous blowback effects on Warsaw Pact forces) giving NATO forces the upper hand for the first time in the war.
+**16.45** - SAC approves pre-authorised release authority pending Presidential order. All nuclear forces on 'hair-trigger' alert.
+**17.32** - Ogarkov instructs Soviet General Staff to issue tactical release authority to field commanders.
+**1745 ZULU/11:45 AM CST** - CNN reports Heidelberg, location of US Joint Command HQ, as location of a nuclear detonation. Tactical exchange begins.
+Word reaches the University of Illinois about the tactical exchange in Europe. Both Urbana-Champaign and Carbondale prepare for an all-out strategic exchange.
+**1753 ZULU/11:53 AM CST** - Reagan evacuated to Andrews AFB as EAN is sent to US forces worldwide.
+The EAN is received by Urbana-Champaign and Carbondale.
+Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces launch strategic weapons against targets in Europe and North America.
 **1754 ZULU** - Autherisation signal for nuclear retaliation transmitted from RAF High Wycombe, Corsham and HMY //Britannia//. Thirty seconds after the signal is transmitted RAF High Wycombe is destroyed.
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 **17:58** - The first nuclear device to detonate in the north west of England exploded above the communications base at Inskip, around seventeen miles south of Lancaster.
+Strategic Air Command begins retaliatory launches from silos across the Midwest as launches are detected from submarines off both coasts.
 **18.06** - The closest blast to Lancaster occurred. Twenty thousand people in Barrow-in-Furness became vapour. Thirty thousand Barrovians were dead within ten minutes, over thirty five thousand within the hour. The single airburst fell short of the shipyard by half a mile, exploding above the Holker Street soccer ground. Within seconds the steelworks and shipyard were gone. It was only in Ulverston, ten miles from ground zero, and protected by the hilly south Cumbrian geography, that damage became scarce.
+**21.22 - 21.34 (Feb. 22, 7.22 - 7.34 AEDT)** - Ten targets are hit across Australia: Perth, Fremantle, and Garden Island, WA; Darwin, Pine Gap, and Alice Springs, NT; Cairns and Townsville, QLD; Sydney, NSW; and Canberra, ACT.
+**22.53 - 22.57 (Feb. 22, 9.53 - 9.57 NZDT)** - First Auckland and then Wellington, New Zealand, are hit with nuclear weapons in the last major strikes on the day of the Exchange.
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 **4 March** - Indiana Lieutenant Governor John Mutz, the highest ranking surviving executive official of Indiana, arrives at Urbana-Champaign due to safety concerns back in Indiana.
-**29 May** - Major joint Australian-New Zealand-Indian aid convoy of eleven ships arrives in Portsmouth, loaded with food and fuel. They are escorted by seven ships of the navies of the three nations.
+**3-4 March (NZDT)** - After the Prime Minister is "encouraged" to step down, an impromptu leadership vote is taken by the Emergency Cabinet on his successor.
+**29 March** - HMAS //Perth// is contacted in the Bay of Biscay en route to Britain, and makes harbour at Portsmouth.
+**4 April** - Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel limps back into Portsmouth Harbour, reporting harrassment by Argentinian naval vessels as it attempted to make contact with the Falklands. CHANTICLEER assumes the islands have been invaded by Argentina, and calls in submarine-launched nuclear attacks - over the objections of the King - on Buenos Aires and bases on Tierra del Fuego.
+ - The //Perth// begins return voyage to Australia, with half of its crew effectively taken hostage and Royal Navy personnel put in their place.
+**29 May** - Major joint Australian-New Zealand-Indian aid convoy of eleven ships arrives in Portsmouth, loaded with food and fuel. They are escorted by seven ships of the navies of the three nations, including an aircraft carrier.
 **13 July** - //USS Texas// spotted at the southwestern coast of Ireland, later meets up with //RMAS Bustler// in the English Channel. First post-war establishment of official contact between the governments of the US and the United Kingdom. Return of surviving Operation Prospero air crew to the UK. First post-war deals between the survivor governments signed.
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 **15 of July, evening** - Swiss aerial reconnaissance had positively identified four mobile launchers in the vicinity of Munich. This confirmation that the weapons are not mere hearsay brings the internal conflict in CHANTICLEER to boiling point.
-**16 July** - An emergency meeting of the UK emergency cabinet is called in the early hours of the morning.
+**16 July** - An emergency meeting of the UK emergency cabinet is called in the early hours of the morning, during which Whitelaw is temporarily relinquished of his post as debate over the Second Munich Crisis reaches a crescendo.
 **Late July** - Operation Anthony launched, with the goal of using the remaining nuclear-equipped bombers of the RAF to obliterate the surviving Soviet troops in Munich. In mid-flight, all bombers are called off to return to their bases and the operation is cancelled.