 What happens to Europe after the bombs?
HOMECOMING BY MIGUEL HIDALGO What lasts forever? Images began to appear, drawn from inexhaustible files, wherein are kept all thoughts, past, present, and future.... World War III had been declared, and he had enlisted, receiving his old rank of captain. Three days later they had landed in Spain, merged with another division, then crossed the Pyrenees into France, and finally to Paris where the fighting had begun. Already the city was a silent graveyard, littered with the rubble of towers and cathedrals which had once been great. Three years later they were on the road to Moscow. The Russians had not yet used the H-bomb; the threat of annihilation by the retaliation forces had been too great.
 It becomes anarchic, with essentially no governments left.
 It becomes anarchic, with essentially no governments left.  It becomes anarchic, with nothing but gangs to officially end what is left of the war.  It falls to Russia, becoming a wasteland in the wake of its bombing.  It becomes a festering wasteland. All living things dead.