Correction to Terminology

[Legbreaker]

The US is the only country in the world as far as I know that uses 911. Here in Australia it's 000. The proliferance of US TV in Australia actually causes some problems with emergency calls.

910 and 912 mean absolutely nothing over here so I'm positive neither of those tags would have stuck outside the US.

[kato13]

But why did you say 912 would not have stuck since 911 did. I know in Asia they say 9-11 (for the attack). The phone number thing was the only thing I could think of.

[Webstral]

For what it, , A,c, ,c,c,,A-, ,c,c,,A,cs worth, I refer to the entire period from 7/9/09 to the end of the main body of nuclear activity in December 1997 as the Exchange. This is the period in which the overwhelming majority of nuclear strikes are made, from the use of tacnukes in Eastern Europe through to the strikes on neutral countries in December. Yes, I know there is a second weak spurt of activity in 1998, but the UK and Italy are the countries predominantly affected. They can come up with their own timeline for the term Exchange. By 2000, it's all about the same.

Anyway, I think a term like Exchange, with its definable limits, should be able to include pretty much everyone and not show bias. We can talk about pre-Exchange and post-Exchange America, Canada, Australia, France, and so on without referring to anyone, , A,c, ,c,c,,A-, ,c,c,,A,cs holidays.

Webstral

[Legbreaker]

But why did you say 912 would not have stuck since 911 did.

911 is commonly known around the world as the US emergency number due to the spread of dodgy US television shows . Here in Australia, it's been perverted to 9-11 (same as Asia apparently) in reference to the date (which in Australia would usually be day/month/year or 11th September, 11/09, etc) and the telephone number.
910 and 912 just doesn't have the same worldwide exposure as 911.

[Legbreaker]

For what it, , A,c, ,c,c,,A-, ,c,c,,A,cs worth, I refer to the entire period from 7/9/09 to the end of the main body of nuclear activity in December 1997 as the Exchange.

I quite like the term "The Exchange" but as you've said, it's a broad period or time which could cover from the date of the first tactical nuke over in China through to the last public reported nuke (probably in 1998).

We can all agree that there were several basic phases to the exchange - the intial tactical strikes in the east, followed by tactical strikes in the west/Europe, then intercontinental strikes, followed later in 1998 by the weaker (or more accurately less prolific) strikes.

It's these general phases that the public, driven by the media, would probably have named.

[fightingflamingo]

Since the attack occured the day after Thanksgiving in the US. Although I'm very used to using TDM to refer to this event. I could see it being referred simply as Black Friday in the US in the years following the exchange and through the reconstruction period, as the day after Thanksgiving is already called by that name for other reasons, it seems to me that the nuclear strikes would make the name more appropriate, and hey... it sorta would be Friday almost everwhere, unless it was Saturday already...