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| rdfs:label | - Athens, Georgia (1983: Doomsday)
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| rdfs:comment | - Athens, Georgia was a town 70 miles east of the former city of Atlanta. Athens was home to the University of Georgia and the U.S. Navy Supply School. Athens became a temporary haven for refugees of the nuclear blasts in Atlanta, as well as residents of other north Georgia towns looking for stable shelter and food. Area civic leaders set up a provisional state government in the city in October 1983, similarly to other towns and cities in the southeastern U.S., specifically Asheville and Hattiesburg. Unlike those towns, however, Athens would not survive.
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| abstract | - Athens, Georgia was a town 70 miles east of the former city of Atlanta. Athens was home to the University of Georgia and the U.S. Navy Supply School. Athens became a temporary haven for refugees of the nuclear blasts in Atlanta, as well as residents of other north Georgia towns looking for stable shelter and food. Area civic leaders set up a provisional state government in the city in October 1983, similarly to other towns and cities in the southeastern U.S., specifically Asheville and Hattiesburg. Unlike those towns, however, Athens would not survive. Tensions over food and medicine, along with growing social tensions, exploded in an "orgy of violence and death" which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 98 percent of the population and scattering of the survivors in March 1984. All information about the region comes from written records discovered in Athens by World Census and Reclamation Bureau scouts assigned to north Georgia in 2009. These records include personal journals and letters, political pamphlets and a copy of the provisional state constitution sealed in a vault, as well as copies of the Athens Banner-Herald and University of Georgia Red and Black newspapers from September 1983 through March 1984.
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