User:S Berger

Scenario
The Fallout plot line, however plausible, is highly unlikely to happen within the next 25 years. The most likely scenario for a nuclear attack on American soil is that terrorists will sneak a nuclear warhead aboard a cargo ship and detonate the device near a port city. If they coordinated multiple attacks simultaneous, the result would be eerily similar to the post-apocalyptic scenario in Fallout.

Terrorist Nuclear Attack Scenario Timeline:
1) Nuclear devices are smuggled onto several cargo ships.

2) Smaller Nuclear devices are transported on cargo trucks that crossed illegally through the border.

3) The ships are inbound to the ports of Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, DC.

4) Trucks are inbound to Colorado Springs, Chicago, Houston.

5) On one day(probably not Sunday), attack occurs sometime miday.

Immediate result:
-All major Cities in West Coast are gone.

-The California Central Valley(major farming region) is gone.

-Stock Market(if not on a Sunday)is gone.

-Due to no pre-alert, such as in a missile attack, all form of federal and judicial government is gone.

-The Air Force Academy, NORAD, and Fort Carson would be eradicated.

-Large portion of the United States Military would be scattered and would be leaderless.

-Destruction of Chicago would kill nearly 3 million people immediately and hurt our already dead economy.

-If Houston(or Dallas) was to be bombed, it would result in major deaths and dealing a blow to our oil reserves.

-Massive Panic everywhere across the entire global.

-Global Economics crumble.

Aftermath:
-Fallout spreads across the entire continental United States, Atlantic Ocean, and parts of Canada and Central America

-Bread Basket is now an irradiated wasteland

-Possibility of Civil War between various factions in the United States

-Global Temperature raises

-Europe, China, and Russia militarize

-Africa receives no help and hunger is increased

-South America could erupt into civil war

-Middle East would be in turmoil

Overall Result from Nuclear Attack:
-Up to 250 million dead in the United States

-Depending on if, and how many, nuclear attacks occurred in other nations, up to 5 billion dead

-Widespread Mutations occur everywhere

-Life as we know it will change

-Humanity will be set back by a few hundred years