Doomsday (2018: doomsdayr

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The launch of 28 North Korean missiles against targets across the west coast of the United States and Japan signifies the beginning of Doomsday. Although sources from North Korea are scarce following the American counterstrike, the launches appear to have been prompted by the 2018 North Korean Coup, an attempted military coup against the leadership of Kim Jong-Un. The coup saw a group of senior military officers attempt to seize the country's nuclear arsenal and to use the leverage of the nuclear bombs to force the abdication of Kim Jong-Un. Rather than allow the coup to seize the weapons of mass destruction, the Supreme Leader ordered the launch of the all 28 of North Korea's ballistic missiles. This act prevented the conspirators from seizing power, leading to their capture and subsequent execution. With the coup defeated, Kim Jong-Un quickly evacuated Pyongyang fearing the inevitable American counter attack. Unable to alter the pre-programmed targets of the North Korean Nuclear Arsenal, nine of the missiles were designated to strike Japanese cities and military bases, three were targeted at South Korean cities and bases, while the other 16 targeted cities and military installations across the western United States. Of the 28 missiles there were only seven successful launches with only five successful detonation. The weapons detonate over the Japanese cities of Osaka and Nagoya, the American military base in Busan, and the American cities of San Francisco, CA and a Seattle, WA. Although less than 20% of the North Korean arsenal was successful, the bombs managed to cause millions of direct and secondary casualties. The remaining two successful launches resulted in one mid-flight failure and a detonation failure. The detonation failure over the American Territory of Guam led to the deaths of some 2,000 due to exposure to toxic and radioactive materials from the plutonium-based bomb, and required extensive clean-up efforts. Immediately following the launches, North Korean troops along the DMZ were ordered to advance. North Korean artillery positions began a saturation bombardment of South Korean and American positions near the DMZ, and Seoul was hit with an extremely deadly chemical weapons strike. The conventional warfare lasts less than two hours before American Second-Strike countermeasures saw to the total destruction of North Korea with ten of the 11 designated nuclear bombs detonating across the small nation. However, in a twist of fate, the targeting computer for the 11th ICBM misfired, and the warhead detonated over the Chinese border city of Langtou. Further along the border, the strike on the North Korean airport of Uiji detonates late, closer to the Chinese border. In total these bombs cause 192,019 Chinese civilian deaths, with hundreds of thousands more injured. The event prompts the opening of direct hostilities between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China. With public opinion in China deeply against the United States, Xi Jinping and the Politburo of the People's Republic of China issued a declaration of hostilities between the United States and China after the unprovoked nuclear attack on Chinese soil. From June 13th, 2018 through the summer of 2018 and into September, the two nations waged a high-intensity conventional war in the South and East China Seas. Although most of the fighting was done at sea and in the air, both sides committed significant land forces to the Korean Peninsula, as well as the Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile in Europe, the Russian Federation launches a invasion of Europe, now when the US is preoccupied with China. What happens when the nukes hit Washington, DC? We are about to find out.