The year is 2118. 200 years after The Great War, and 200 times as powerful. With advances in technology, one push of a button could easily destroy the world once and for all.
It started off small, a civil war in Russia. Then the missiles started raining down. Head of Russia, Vladimir Andyukov, launched missiles on North Korea. That was his big mistake. Korea fought back, bringing Japan and China onto their side. Russia bought in Britain and Germany, and from there, the whole world was involved. Countries split into two sides, friends turning on friends, brothers turning on sisters. It was the biggest, most dangerous war in the history of the world.
BOOK 2
After chaos destroyed, America fell into pandemonium and there was no communication with the U.S. After a pandemic crisis on the East coast, most civilization was abandoned near the Atlantic Ocean. After that, the world slowly began to fall to pieces and almost every country made a scramble to figure a way to make space travel easier so they could colonize a planet. But a new leader came out of the ashes and proclaimed they would consider the apocalypse a "rebirth" and proceeded (with his advanced engineering) to clear radioactivity from America and make it livable again.
With the help of his crew, he builds a high security city and begins to build out past the east coast. Shortly after he rebuilds NY, he disappears and his advisor rises to power. He is a fair but cruel master (calling himself a Lord) and some people refuse to work for him. These people manage to escape the oppression of the Lord and live out on the wasteland that was once a great country. Some band together to make right communities and others rough it out by themselves, scavenging for a living.