World War 3: Nuclear Fallout

My name is Jackson Stone. I’m a survivor of the Disaster. It all happened 100 years ago but the effects haven’t gone away. I’m told the outside world used to be beautiful and safe, but ever since I was born it hasn’t even been close. 100 years ago, maybe it was, but then the Disaster happened and it’s never been the same. Here’s what happened.

100 years ago, America was strongly disliked by many countries. Still is, in fact. Some things didn’t change. Anyway, most countries decided to leave us alone and let us solve out own problems. But some countries disagreed and tried to solve our problems for us. Now, you might think that it’s a good thing, having all of America’s problems solved. That’s where you’d be wrong. You see, those countries used extremely destructive tactics to solve the problems. Tactics by the name of nuclear weapons. The assault, which was a joint effort between North Korea, Russia, Iran, and a few more countries, was devastating. I was told the missiles were launched from a sea base and shot toward America extremely quickly. By the time we could react, it was almost too late and the nukes had begun their descent. Our nation’s leader at the time attempted to hit the foreign missiles with some of our own and succeeded in hitting a couple, the rest of the shots going awry. We could not stop the rest.

The fallout was devastating. The country is a wasteland, filled with impact craters, radiation, and rubble. The radiation that remains is still powerful enough to poison the unprotected. Our current protection isn’t strong enough, but we need to fix our land. I’m telling you this in the hopes that one day you could fix the chaos of the outside world. Maybe, when you get older, you can look out a window without shuddering. And maybe then we can learn from our mistakes. But until then we will live and die in confinement, wondering how this all went so wrong. Good luck to you. May you not share my doomed fate.