Post-Nuclear Earth

'''DIVERGENCE: Based on surviving periodicals and magnetic storage, the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s escalated rapidly under the presidency of Richard Milhouse Nixon, who had won the 1960 presidential election against John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A full nuclear exchange between the United States, the Soviet Union and allied powers decimated the Earth and reduced most population centers to rubble.'''

Only limited intelligence has been collected on this Earth. The portal site opens into a heavily irradiated ruin, determined to be Brussels, Belgium. Extreme environmental precautions are necessary to protect from radioactive exposure as well as extreme cold.