This ATL deals with a possible time line in which the United States creates a horrible virus to use against the Russians should they have decided to go to war against America. It begins in 1957 when American scientists create the virus, which is stolen by the Soviets, but is accidentally unleashed upon the Earth, infecting four-fifths of the world's population and turning them into mindless, flesh-eating Zombie-like creatures. The rest of the uninfected humans try to survive and keep the diseased horde at bay in an apocalyptic event known only as "The Outbreak".