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| - These quotes sum up the worst disaster ever to befall mankind. As a species, man had succeeded in destroying itself and the rest of the world. They have not only killed themselves, but every other living thing as well. But as always, man finds a way to survive. It is truly amazing that we've survived at all. The temperatures have plunged from the massive amounts of dust filling the atmosphere. The human population has dropped from three billion to only 300 million. People everywhere starve from the lack of sunlight killing plants and the radiation causing cancer in the 'lucky' few who've survived the apocalypse. The first rain after the war was also devastating. The cloud droplets had mixed with the radioactive dust, and began the Bergensen Process. The rain came almost a week after the bombs fell and landed in many of the unaffected fields and scorched the skin of those outside. Almost 13,000 people immediately died from the rains and an estimated 7,000,000 were killed later in their lives from cancer caused by the rain. But the first few rains after the bombs fell were not the worst of the change in weather. The nuclear clouds of dust blocked the sun's rays and were able to reflect away the heat as well. The effect was a global drop in temperature of almost ten degrees. Soon the world was on its steady course towards recovery, but it would be a long, painful route.
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