History Literature / NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday

* AfterTheEnd: Thirty years and counting, to be exact.

There is also a unofficial timeline, "Beyond 1983: Doomsday" where it talks about what would probably happen in the future of the timeline. Be warned though it ends with another CrapSackWorld (well sorta...).

The scenario inspired a contributor to create a fanfiction collection called ''Fanfic/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsdayStories'', which [[{{Crossover}} crosses over]] with ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''. There is also another series by the name of ''Fanfic/ASplinteredMan'', which is set in the Doomsday Stories AU, but eventually expands to the ''RDNA-verse''.

The scenario inspired a contributor to create a fanfiction collection called ''Fanfic/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsdayStories'', which [[{{Crossover}} crosses over]] with ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''. There is also another series by the name of ''Fanfic/ASplinteredMan'', which is set in the Doomsday Stories AU, but eventually expands to the ''Fanfic/RDNA-verse''.

The scenario inspired a contributor to create a fanfiction collection called ''Fanfic/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsdayStories'', which [[{{Crossover}} crosses over]] with ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''.

* TheApunkalypse: ''[[CanadaEh QUEBEC]]'' out of all places gets turned into this.

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Creator/StephenColbert is a senator in the Virginian Republic...[[InSpiteOfANail who also happens to be a popular comedian with his own (mostly radio) show]].

** The USA is an interesting case in that unlike the USSR, it virtually collapsed entirely save for the American Exiles in Hawaii (later on moving to Australia) and Puerto Rico. On the other hand, a group of survivor communities in the Midwest forged a "Provisional United States" by the early 1990s, dropping the "Provisional" bit upon finding out that there really ''was'' no US Government anymore, the remnants having been integrated into Australian society.

* ApocalypticLog: The AP wire reports from various US bureaus describe evacuation orders from local officials, mass panic as word of the incoming Soviet attack gets out, and flashes and "mighty" explosions as nearby targets are destroyed [[LostInTransmission (with some reports cut short in mid-word)]]. Whoever's running the Cincinnati bureau [[DyingCurse rages against the parties responsible for the war]], while Charlotte [[ItHasBeenAnHonor says it's been a privilege reporting the news]] and hopes God is with the survivors. The last report is from Dallas (which makes sense since it's one of the major US cities farthest from the Soviet Union), reporting the destruction of Fort Worth before it, too, is cut off.

* ApocalypticLog: The AP wire reports from various US bureaus describe evacuation orders from local officials, mass panic as word of the incoming Soviet attack gets out, and flashes and "mighty" explosions as nearby cities and targets are destroyed [[LostTransmission (with some reports cut short in mid-word)]]. Whoever's running the Cincinnati bureau [[DyingCurse rages against the parties responsible for the war]], while Charlotte [[ItHasBeenAnHonor says it's been a privilege reporting the news]] and hopes God is with the survivors. The last report is from Dallas (which makes sense since it's one of the major US cities farthest from the Soviet Union), reporting the destruction of Fort Worth before it, too, is cut off.

* BalkanizeMe: Happened to pretty much every country that got nuked. For instance, the United Kingdom is currently broken up into more than ''ten'' different countries [[note]]the Celtic Alliance (Ireland, parts of Wales, Scotland, and western England, the Isle of Man, and Brittany), Ur Alba or New Scotland (south-west Scotland), the Kingdom of Cleveland (most of north-east England), Northumbria (the parts of north-east England that aren't Cleveland's, plus northern Cumbria), the Duchy of Lancaster (Lancashire, plus bits of North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Merseyside and Greater Manchester), the Wesmorland and Furness Territories (southern Cumbria. Is a protectorate of the Duchy of Lancaster), Newolland (South Kesteven, South Holland, parts of Cambrdgeshire and Norfolk), Woodbridge (part of Suffolk), Essex (Essex, Hertfordshire, East London, Luton), and Southern England (Isle of Wight and parts of Sussex)[[/note]], plus small city states.

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts? : [[http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Salyut_7_Crisis_%281983:_Doomsday%29 The Salyut 7 Crisis]].

* BalkanizeMe: Happened to pretty much every country that got nuked. For instance, the UK is currently broken up into the Celtic Alliance (Ireland, parts of Wales, Scotland, and western England, the Isle of Man, and Brittany), Ur Alba or New Scotland (south-west Scotland), the Kingdom of Cleveland (most of north-east England), Northumbria (the parts of north-east England that aren't Cleveland's, plus northern Cumbria), the Duchy of Lancaster (Lancashire, plus bits of North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Merseyside and Greater Manchester), the Wesmorland and Furness Territories (southern Cumbria. Is a protectorate of the Duchy of Lancaster), Newolland (South Kesteven, South Holland, parts of Cambrdgeshire and Norfolk), Woodbridge (part of Suffolk), Essex (Essex, Hertfordshire, East London, Luton), and Southern England (Isle of Wight and parts of Sussex), plus small city states.

The scenario inspired a contributor to create a fanfiction collection called ''NineteenEightyThreeDoomsdayStories.''

* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: Played with. There are mentions of a faith worshiping AbrahamLincoln in the American survivor state of Lincoln, as well as a "Cult of the Once and Future King" (which worships the remnant British Monarchy as an extension of King Arthur) in New Britain.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: A good deal present. Among others, there's a reference to a Western novel serving as a sequel to ''MobileSuitGundam.'' Which bears ''more'' than a passing resemblance to ''Anime/TurnAGundam,'' though with some strange twists (eg. the Black History being both an allegory for [[WorldWarIII Doomsday]] and an age-long plan by the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Zabis]]).

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: StephenColbert is a senator in the Virginian Republic...[[InSpiteOfANail who also happens to be a popular comedian with his own (mostly radio) show]].

** Also played around with former Germany. The West imploded, although various stable German Survivor-Nations had emerged from the ashes while what remained of Bavaria joined the Alpine Federation. Most of East Germany on the other hand goes by Prussia these day.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: A good deal present. Among others, there's a reference to a Western novel serving as a sequel to ''MobileSuitGundam.'' Which bears ''more'' than a passing resemblance to ''Anime/TurnAGundam,'' though with some strange twists (eg. the Black History being both an allegory for [[WorldWarIII Doomsday]] an age-long plan by the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Zabis]]).

* WorldHalfFull: Most of the world's population got killed, either on Doomsday itself or in the aftermath, the Eighties were pretty much hell for most of the northern hemisphere, warlords, extremists and criminals took advantage of the situation to gain power and are still a problem to this day, large parts of the world are still uninhabitable radioactive wastelands, and several countries no longer exist. However, people still pulled through, the world is well on its way to being rebuilt (albeit with quite a few changes), there's still a lot of good people in the world, and things are slowly getting better.

On September 26, 1983, there was a false alarm in the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow which reported that four missiles were heading toward the USSR from America. In RealLife, the officer on duty was Colonel Stanislav Petrov, who realised that it didn't make any sense for the US to attack with only four missiles and logged it as a technical error, which it in fact was, rather than reporting it to his superiors. Because of his sound judgement, nuclear war was averted and countless lives saved.

* AfterTheEnd: Twenty-nine years and counting, to be exact.

* {{Eagleland}}: The [[http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Committee_to_Restore_the_United_States_of_America_(1983:_Doomsday) CRUSA]] likes to see itself as this trope incarnate, having originated from [[TheRemnant the US exile community in Australia]] with the ultimate goal of reviving pre-Doomsday America. Coincidentally, they're one of the main backers of the "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything American Spring]]"...which has brought a ''very'' mixed reaction internationally to say the least.

* GargleBlaster: There is an article devoted to alcohol. One of the drinks mentioned is Poi-chin, the Cleveish form of poitin, aka Irish potato whiskey, which is about 60-80% ABV, has an unoffical age limit that is three years older than the legal drinking age, and can apparently ''get you drunk again the day after you drink it'' because even plain water will bring the remaing ethenol back into solution.