Cold War heats up

Off the top of my head, i think Australia (possibly united with New Zealand) and South Africa (expanding in America's absence to conquer Botswana and Namibia) would be the two new superpowers. Fascist Spain would be the only surviving European nation due to its westerly location, and Mexico would gobble up the uncontaminated remains of the southwest USA to put a stop to marauding biker gangs terrorising the farmsteads and remaining small towns

I'd have thought Canada, as a prominent Nato ally, would have been taken out by Ivan's nukes, either deliberately or by mistake. Some of the later hydrogen bombs had a blast radius the size of the UK. One alone would be devastating, but the payload of a squadron of Bears would bring total annihilation

Edited by Nick1986 - 08-Dec-2011 at 20:37

Remember, technology would have advanced since that time. According to the map i saw back in primary school, a Russian hydrogen bomb dropped on London would devastate the Scottish lowlands and northwestern France

What effect would this have on the Middle East? Without America holding them back, i imagine all the Arab nations would jump on Israel, similar to the 1967 Six Day War. In the aftermath of this conflict Israel (lacking its American attack dog) would form closer ties with Apartheid South Africa and become increasingly aggressive to deter future attacks


Edited by Nick1986 - 10-Dec-2011 at 19:06

Perhaps North Korea, aided by Soviet and Red Chinese remnants, would conquer the South and become the last Communist power. On the other hand, this would probably only happen if Kim Il-Sung died unexpectedly as he distrusted the Chinese, especially after the Sino-Soviet Split and Cultural Revolution

I can think of a couple of other countries that might survive fallout and (in a few cases) even benefit in a post Cold War scenario:
Vietnam - Unified under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh
Jordan - Equipped with the latest Chieftain tanks and a British-trained army
Argentina - Controlled by Peron, has a sizeable Nazi expat community, and owns the Falklands
Egypt - Under military dictatorship, fearful of fighting on two fronts against an expansionist Spain (overflowing with European refugees) and aggressive Israel
American remnants - The entire population of Hawaii, extremist guerrillas in the southwest resisting Mexican expansion, army personnel in the southernmost corner of Korea, a few US Navy vessels (including the battleship Iowa) now under Oceanian command