The Abandoned Pyramid of North Dakota

This place needs to be used in an AtB adventure.  It's an old radar station from the cold war.

Read More at io9.com: http://io9.com/the-abandoned-pyramid-of-north-dakota-1564920089

It looks like the remains of some futuristic cult. This slowly-eroding cement pyramid in Nekoma, North Dakota is all that's left of a $6 billion nuclear launch facility created as part of the Safeguard Program.

2nd Edition After the Bomb Origin

In the original After the Bomb game supplement for TMNT:AOS and Heroes Unlimited, the background for the setting was that radiation and fallout from a nuclear war was what killed off the majority of the human race and created the mutations that led to the rise of mutant animals.  Typical for a setting that was created in the 80s.

In 2nd Edition, the setting was moved from the 80's to a period somewhere in the middle of the 21st Century where bio-tech is as commonplace as home computers and smartphones.  Now, instead of the animal mutations and human death being caused by nuclear armageddon, a genetic plague is to blame.  There is still nuclear armageddon, but it's more responsible to the collapse of what little society was left behind.

Today, I found the attached video which describes how gene therapy today could be used to mess with genetics.  Just imagine if someone were to patch something like this onto a flu virus and loosed it on the world.