Sixty Minute War
The Sixty Minute War is a conflict that features in Mortal Engines.
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History
The Sixty Minute War
When the War broke out, the American Empire and Greater China engaged each other in a MAD nuclear war, attacking each other with all their nuclear armament. Targeting key infrastructure/population, Europe was first bombed with plenty of missiles and asteroids, and the Middle East was likely involved, as it was also bombed with atomic craters. The next countries to fall would likely have been Africa and South America. Possibly then, even more countries fell such as the combatants themselves: the US and then China, across the Pacific. Entire cities were even wiped off the map in massive nuclear craters, such as San Francisco. Perhaps the last areas to fall were concentrated at the poles, such as northern Europe, sparing the Pyramid Builders and the pyramids themselves from nuclear impacts, but small cities such as Anchorage being obliterated was still seen. The final minutes of the War ended with the launching of the Slow Bomb asteroids, which hit the Earth up to a few decades after the War 'ended'.
The surface of the Earth was obliterated by the impacts of exploding nukes and lasers (attacks and counterattacks), and later even asteroids. From space, the Earth had huge energy blasts and nuclear explosions spreading across the surface, destroying the surface of Europe and South America, and then the rest of the world such as North America and a few bombs in Africa. Volcanoes erupted along long-dormant crust lines, possibly the result of ODIN tearing into the ground. The Deccan Traps of India re-opened and resurfaced the country in large areas, and even South America's Andes had little eruptions. The Earth's crust itself was "shattered into a thousand pieces", with the continents soon moving everywhere, but the Earth's surface was temporarily rendered uninhabitable. It still was in some areas such as the Dead Continent, where the ground surface was quite literally glassed.
Overview
By its name, the war took only an hour to begin and end, presumably due to the unprecedented amounts of devastating weaponry deployed. The war ended millennia of human civilisational development, and caused near-total global destruction, depopulation or mutation of most life, realignment of the continents, massive geological upheaval, and destruction of several large landmasses, one notable example being that the isthmus linking North and South America was destroyed by weaponised meteors and the downfall of the human species.
Participants
- Unknown :
Notes
- The Sixty Minute War was created by Philip Reeve where it featured in the setting of the Mortal Engines universe.
In other media
Films
Appearances
- Mortal Engines:
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