It had happened, the unthinkable, the last straw. 2 of the biggest powers had just been wiped off the face of the planet within a short 30 minutes.

Mutually assured death was of an era long forgotten, nobody was prepared for it, nobody expected that they needed to be.

What would be known as the “red hour”: an emergency alert was sent everyone around the world, sirens that were to haunt your every night pierced across every signal. It showed on it an exclamation mark with the nuclear symbol over it, thick black writing read “seek cover immediately” before cycling different languages.

That screen would be burned into the retinas for ever.

To the shock of everyone around us, we could watch the rockets flying right over us. It had dawned on people, slowly, that they were not aimed us, but were being traded between the two great powers. 30 minutes exactly after the warning was first sent out, we saw the horizon go a deep red and orange. The explosion were so vast, and so many, that the sound of them could be heard for thousands of miles away. It sounded like a dormant demon growling with eminent power and anger. The vast display of explosions left behind great clouds, from a distance you could still see the heads of the mushrooms. Like a Goliath storm, you could see it begin the encroach and envelop the area.

1 hour and 16 minutes after the first siren, an emergency news broadcast courtesy of the BBC. It had stated that on that fateful evening, both Russia an America had both fired an estimated combination of around 4 thousands warheads at each other. From the little information available, it looked like almost half a billion of the Earth’s population had been wiped out.

Nobody was sure for certain why it had happened, what was happening, or what was going to happen. Pretty much every country on Earth was going to be effected by the nuclear fallout, the Earth itself would be shook.

At that point nobody was sure what would happen to the environment, many experts estimated that we would fall into a nuclear winter whilst some predicted sky rocketing temperatures as the atmosphere almost had a hole dug strait through it. To everyone who sat there wondering, it was obvious that their days were surely numbered.