Petroleum and Uranium, for these resources China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarrelling bickering nation states bent on controlling the last remaining resources on earth.
In 2077 the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours most of the planet was reduce to cinders and from the ashes a new civilization would struggle to arise.
Spears of nuclear fire rianed down from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Humanity was almost extinguished. Their spirits becoming part of the back ground radiation that blanketed the earth. A quiet darkness fell across the planet lasting many years"
From The Vault, but i've can just think what's happened. But is possible who before the Bombs some European nations make a lot of pace accord to survive against this terrible problem of the war. Expecially the Weak nations like Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Switzerland, who which indicated neutral to the conflict