Atomic Wars
The Atomic Wars is a conflict that features in Judge Dredd.
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History
The Atomic Wars was a global conflict that came to affect the Earth.
During the mid-21st century, the United States suffered a horrific crime problem. Powerful gangs rampaged through the urban sprawls that would become Mega-Cities, able to intimidate jurors and become virtually immune to prosecution, at one point even storming the White House itself. Such violent incidents led to the formation of the instant justice system in 2031 to mass public support, with specially-trained Judges taking over the roles of police, jury and executioner. However, at the same time America was becoming increasingly nationalistic. In 2068 his Vice-President Robert L. Booth secretly rigged the vote to gain office himself and, claiming the rest of the world was living off America's back, he drove already bad international relations into the ground.
In 2070, Booth ordered the US Army to occupy various key industrial points around the world. Following this mass protests were received from the Mega Cities, nations and alliances worldwide with the exception of Brit-Cit. Booth issued an ultimatum: either they backed down or America would nuke every other nation -- Booth's insanity was now apparent to the Judges. The American population was whipped up into a furor, with both they and Booth believing that huge shields, anti-nuclear screens, would shelter America from any retaliation. Early on the morning of 12 June 2070, Judges were called to the White House to find one of Booth's staffers dead in the Catfish pond; since the man was known to be anti-war he was assumed to have committed suicide. Later in the morning the chief Judges of the Mega Cities met to discuss what to do about Booth. However Booth would never listen to them and would abolish the Judges instead, a coup was postulated, but at the time the Judges simply were not able to take that step since it would have meant betraying the laws of the United States, an act which even given the coming holocaust they were not yet ready to undertake. At the end of the meeting Booth starts the war and the Judges rush back to their home cities.
Overview
Members
- Robert L. Booth :
Notes
- The Atomic Wars
Appearances
- Dredd Year One: Fallen Angel v1:
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