In 2077, the nuclear holocaust struck the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with a vengeance. In Moscow, tens of thousands fled to the tunnels of the metro system, which was specially designed years ago to be a massive fallout shelter. The surface, rendered an irradiated wasteland of rubble and blasted-out edifices, now lays nearly abandoned. - The year is 2080. 3 years after the bombs dropped, Marshal Snyder is the only American Embassy staffman left after all of his colleagues went out to the surface to scavenge for supplies, never to return. It's now his turn to go out into the unforgiving Moscow Wasteland.