Atomic Wars

The Atomic Wars is a fictional series of events featured in the Judge Dredd multimedia franchise. It appears in many Dredd stories published in the British sci-fi anthology magazine 2000 A.D.. It was these wars that led to the creation of the radioactive wilderness known as the Cursed Earth.

The Atomic Wars was a global nuclear war started in 2070 by the possibly psychotic President of the United States Robert L. Booth. Although a number of the Mega-Cities had their own laser defense systems, the rest of the world was reduced to vast irradiated wastelands, the most famous being the Cursed Earth and Radlands of Ji, from which many threats have sprung.