If I remember correctly from Akira... it is only the year 2017 as far as the two of you remember. That was... a long time ago for me.
In December of 2028, there was a pandemic... A virus called Radical-6. Millions and millions of people died in the span of months, and society quickly started to crumble. Bodies started to pile up. A lack of supply led to the slow starvation of many who were stil left.
In April of 2029, the world leaders who still existed at the time made a last effort to eradicate the disease. Eighteen antimatter reactors were detonated at once across the planet. I... I guess the technology isn't common as far back as you know, but... that kind of explosion is equivalent to a power 180,000 times greater than that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the second World War. The force of the explosions and resulting radiation did eradicate the virus.... but it took a good deal of the human population with it, and sent the rest of the world into a nuclear winter for over seven straight years. Many plants and animals went extinct. Humanity almost did as well.
Between the initial pandemic, society's collapse, and the reactor fallout... six billion lives were lost.
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In December of 2028, there was a pandemic... A virus called Radical-6. Millions and millions of people died in the span of months, and society quickly started to crumble. Bodies started to pile up. A lack of supply led to the slow starvation of many who were stil left.
In April of 2029, the world leaders who still existed at the time made a last effort to eradicate the disease. Eighteen antimatter reactors were detonated at once across the planet. I... I guess the technology isn't common as far back as you know, but... that kind of explosion is equivalent to a power 180,000 times greater than that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the second World War. The force of the explosions and resulting radiation did eradicate the virus.... but it took a good deal of the human population with it, and sent the rest of the world into a nuclear winter for over seven straight years. Many plants and animals went extinct. Humanity almost did as well.
Between the initial pandemic, society's collapse, and the reactor fallout... six billion lives were lost.