In the days before the Great War, the local government of New York City handed out gas masks to protect city workers, police, and the general populace from the dangers of exposure to deadly radiation. It was also taken as a precaution to the threat that at any time a Chinese or Soviet sleeper cell could release a chemical or biological agent into the city streets. However upon the start of the Great War the people of NYC dove into any place they viewed as safe from the nuclear fire raining down from above. Many people took to the subway tunnels and fearing fallout and radiation poisoned air donned their gas masks and prepared for the worst, they patiently waited as their leaders waited for the all clear signal. It never came. Instead the people languished in the subway tunnels and due to t