One Year After

730 DAYS SINCE “THE DAY”
This is BBC News. It’s 3:00 a.m., Greenwich War Time, and this is the news
for today.
This day marks the second anniversary of the start of the war that saw the
detonation of three EMP weapons over the continental United States, another
off the coast of Japan, and a fifth weapon believed to have veered off course
and detonated over Eastern Europe. The effects of this attack—never fully
confirmed but believed to have been an act between Iranian-supported
terrorists and North Korea—continue to reverberate around the world. It is
estimated that upwards of 80 percent of all Americans, and more than half the
population of Japan, Eastern Europe, and what had been western Russia and
the Ukraine have died as a result. China has been seen as the new
superpower in the wake of the attack, with significant Chinese forces, defined
as humanitarian, now occupying the West Coast of the United States and
Japan. Western Europe and our own United Kingdom, though spared the
direct results of the attack, are still feeling the profound economic impact as
the world attempts to reestablish economic and political balance. In south
Asia, intense fighting continues in the wake of a limited nuclear exchange
between Pakistan and India.