Images Of Kara's First Day: Pictures Of Red Dawn's WW3 And The Aftermath

[ajm8888]

Tokyo Stock Exchange Market building was opened a few months before the war began, became the beating heart the capitalist economy after the nuclear strike on New York. Plans to computerize it were pushed back a few years.

Even during the war the Japanese economy was running almost faster than the stock brokers could keep pace. Despite the vast disruptions to their supplies, Japan soldiered on. Like with the Korean War Japan's economy boomed further because of World War III.

Mike Mansfield, US Senator from Montana 1953 to 1977, Senate Majority Whip 1957-1961, Senate Majority Leader 1961-1977, US Ambassador to Japan 1977-1990. Mansfield was one of many figures that helped persuade Japanese political leaders and business leaders to help US military goods be made in Japan. Mansfield was highly respected by those groups. Mansfield would hammer his mantra that the US-Japanese relationship was the "most important bilateral relationship in the world, bar none."

 

[Spiegel1]

Mainland Chinese refugees arrive in Hong Kong following the Soviet Union's nuclear saturation of the mainland. Thousands more of Mainlanders would make landfall in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and the rest of Southeast Asia, presenting a strain in the host countries still reeling from the Vietnamese boat people and the economic stagnation caused by the Third World War.

it might been had a can of worms to been opened leading to Xenophobia.

 

[L'amateur d'aéroplanes]

@Bernard Woolley Rectification : ''Three british tanks destroyed in British Columbia''

 

[Bernard Woolley]

Mansfield would hammer his mantra that the US-Japanese relationship was the "most important bilateral relationship in the world, bar none."

Which was why Japan had access to intelligence that no other US ally had…oh…wait, what’s that? They didn‘t? It was the U.K. that had the position of getting access to stuff that even other members of the Five Eyes didn’t and still does? 😀
Sounds like Mansfield ’went native’ to some degree.

it might been had a can of worms to been opened leading to Xenophobia.

What happened when Chinese refugees tried to cross into Hong Kong wasn’t pretty. I know soldiers who were on the border and they still don’t talk about it. They did what had to be done to keep the Colony safe. It couldn’t have coped with the influx of people trying to reach it.

 

[Amurray1314]

 

[ajm8888]

Which was why Japan had access to intelligence that no other US ally had…oh…wait, what’s that? They didn‘t? It was the U.K. that had the position of getting access to stuff that even other members of the Five Eyes didn’t and still does? 😀
Sounds like Mansfield ’went native’ to some degree.

In the 1980s Japan was the only other country that could manufacture stuff anywhere close to the US levels not fighting.

 

[Amurray1314]

GEN Colin Powell, commander US Third Army, briefs reporters on the liberation of Corpus Christi, TX during Operation BORDER FURY, July 1989.

A celebrant overlooks the scene on Chicago’s LaSalle Street, November 22nd, 1989. The rapid collapse of ComBloc forces in northern Mexico and Canada in October led to the federal government gradually lifting the states of emergency and wartime curfews that had been in place since Invasion Day. Mayor Richard M. Daley announced that the city would revive its annual Thanksgiving Day parade, the city’s first mass gathering in over 4 years. Instead of the modest turnout projected by city officials, the parade quickly transformed into an impromptu rolling rally. The surprise appearance of troops from the 33rd Infantry Division (IL ANG), freshly returned from the Texas front, led to a spontaneous outpouring of affection from the throng of attendees. The crowd quickly overwhelmed the meager Chicago PD barricades, joining the procession and turning things into a massive outdoor party.

Edit: fixed date

 

[Matt Wiser]

1989, not 1990.

 

[farmerted555]

How's the rebuilding of New York and DC going in TTL's 2023, assuming the radiation isn't too bad?

 

[Matt Wiser]

D.C has been rebuilt, and is once again the capital. Manhattan is going to be a real job, while Long Island (Brooklyn, parts of Queens-and points east) was contaminated by the fallout plume from the Battery Park blasts. It was originally thought that a "Prepositioned" freighter had a single 500 KT warhead aboard, but it turned out the Soviets shot two SS-N-16 Vodopad NDBs with 200 KT yields from a sub and fuzed them for contact. Newark and parts of Staten Island were wrecked, but they've been rebuilt. It's Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the rest that will be very long term for rebuilding. The closer to the blast, the higher the concentration of fallout-though there are pockets of higher fallout on the eastern-and less contaminated-parts of Long Island. There are some folks who have moved into the fallout-free parts of Long Island, but there's no infrastructure (Water, power, sewers, etc.), though they do have the encouragement of the State of New York. It's going to be 2050 at least before Central and Eastern Long Island are truly opened up for resettlement, but the big questions are Brooklyn, Queens, and the rest of the western third of the island. Those areas are still a little hot....

 

[Gillan1220]

D.C has been rebuilt, and is once again the capital. Manhattan is going to be a real job, while Long Island (Brooklyn, parts of Queens-and points east) was contaminated by the fallout plume from the Battery Park blasts. It was originally thought that a "Prepositioned" freighter had a single 500 KT warhead aboard, but it turned out the Soviets shot two SS-N-16 Vodopad NDBs with 200 KT yields from a sub and fuzed them for contact. Newark and parts of Staten Island were wrecked, but they've been rebuilt. It's Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the rest that will be very long term for rebuilding. The closer to the blast, the higher the concentration of fallout-though there are pockets of higher fallout on the eastern-and less contaminated-parts of Long Island. There are some folks who have moved into the fallout-free parts of Long Island, but there's no infrastructure (Water, power, sewers, etc.), though they do have the encouragement of the State of New York. It's going to be 2050 at least before Central and Eastern Long Island are truly opened up for resettlement, but the big questions are Brooklyn, Queens, and the rest of the western third of the island. Those areas are still a little hot....

Sad to see the Statue of Liberty get destroyed

 

[Matt Wiser]

It will rise again.

 

[Spiegel1]

It will rise again.

at least no Super Mutants Ghouls and Deathclaws yet

 

[Gillan1220]

It will rise again.

Are the ruins sitting below an irradiated New York Harbor? How will the post-war U.S. rebuild it?

 

[Matt Wiser]

Some parts of the statue have been recovered and decontaminated. The base is out of the fallout plume, and needs a LOT of work. And the bad blood with the French over their "neutrality" has faded for the most part, so they will be joining in the restoration. But Lady Liberty will rise again.

 

[Matt Wiser]

Miss Buffy from the 97th BW, relocated from Blytheville AFB, AR to Grissom AFB, IN; returning from an EASTERN EXPRESS mission, 1988.

 

[Matt Wiser]

Artists' conception of an RAF B-1K (USAF designation)/Lancer B Mk 3(RAF designation) during a low-level training flight in the 1990s. This is the RAF version of the USAF's B-1C Lancer

 

[Matt Wiser]

Baja War, 2010: An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 391st TFS, The Bold Tigers, drops a GBU-15 EO guided bomb on a bridge on Highway 15, north of Culican, 2 Jan 2010.

 

[John_MC]

Baja War, 2010: An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 391st TFS, The Bold Tigers, drops a GBU-15 EO guided bomb on a bridge on Highway 15, north of Culican, 2 Jan 2010. View attachment 879461

Knock knock

 

[Matt Wiser]

Elements of 3-17 INF, 2nd Brigade, 7th ID (L) during mop-up operations in the Pueblo Pocket in Colorado, May, 1987. This was the first time since WW II a Front-level formation had been destroyed: over 100,000 Soviet and ComBloc KIA, and over 200,000 EPWs.