Editing Post-Apocalyptic (section)

=== Nuclear War ===
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:red;font-size:100%'>...distant Khornate Laughter...</span></div> 

The nightmare of the [[Cold War]]. One way or another (international relations entering a death spiral, a rabid hawk in the wrong place in the wrong time, some crazed nutter with an apocalyptic vision gets hold of the Big Red Button, an "Oops" scenario when warning systems give a false positive an attack which convinces the guys in charge to "retaliate", Terrorists give a push when the world's balanced on a knife edge) the missiles start flying. Cities around the world disappear under mushroom clouds, killing tens of millions at a minimum from the blasts itself. Millions more die from wounds and radiation soon after, and more die from fallout, disease, starvation and the breakdown of social order and services. Those that remain will inhabit a shattered poisoned world of ruins and chaos as bands of people seek to claim what they can by force.

Nuclear War is a very human disaster and one made with deliberate intent. An asteroid is simply moving it it's orbit as it has done so for billions of years and just happens to be moving towards another celestial body one day. A virus simply bumps into cells and injects it's RNA into them if they're the right type. Co2 Emissions are a byproduct of human civilization and opposition to reducing them is motivated by economic incentive. But the development of a massive nuclear arsenal is deliberately developing the capacity humans to kill other humans ''en masse'' and our species has gotten frighteningly good at the murder trade.
====Examples====
* [[Fallout]]
* Metro 2033
* [[Fist of the North Star]]
* [[Setting:The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap]]