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Morrow Project Setting

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What the Project Has Told You

The Project didn't know the exact date of the nuclear war ... their best guess was late 1989 or early 1990. Specifically, the Project knew that the War occured during a cold weather period in the U.S., after the summer of 1989 but before the spring of 1990. Which nations would launch first, and the specific reasons for the attacks, were unknown. Bruce Morrow had stated that many nations would be attacked for no apparent reason. The war would apparently be a full-out nuclear strike by the United States and the Soviet Union, at least.

A severe nuclear winter would follow for a decade, during which agricultural production across the globe dropped by 90% or more. (note: the term "nuclear winter" was coined in 1983, but the Project had used similar terms since about 1970 -- "atomic ice age", "years of frost", etc.). A minor ice age followed for a couple of decades, and sea levels dropped by a meter or more, as much of the world's water was locked up in ice.

Rumors Within The Project

Some members of the Project have heard of Jacob Krell, a Project planner in the late Seventies - early Eighties. He was part of the only acknowledged corruption within the Project -- and even that acknowledgement was not very widely known. He and a few members of his staff were detected engaging in embezzlement. Characters that had been previously employed at Brown & Root might have heard a bit more about him.

The Actual Conditions and Events

These are of course unknown initially by Project members.

The War in America

... the late fall/early winter of 1989-90. The Loma Prieta earthquake struck on October 17th. The first half of November was unusually balmy across much of the nation. Then, on November 16, a long line of severe thunderstorms swept through the central and eastern states, producing an outbreak of tornadoes in Alabama. Farther to the north in Newburgh, NY, tornado-strength winds blew down a freestanding cafeteria wall, killing eight students and injuring 18 others. Though the event was officially recorded as a F1 tornado, it was later determined that it was actually an intense downburst.

All of these things came at the end of long stretch of well-above normal temperatures, and immediately following that event, came six weeks of intense cold, with temperatures nationwide averaging about 6 to 12 degrees below normal ...