Although it’s a background point in the Sprawl-universe that a (limited) nuclear war happened and at least Bonn and Belgrade were nuked (and presumably lots of other cities unless it was a German-Yugoslav conflict, which would be rather unlikely). There was also a US-USSR war that may or may not been part of the same conflict that Corto/Armitage was involved in and Case was a bit too young for. That’s a bit more dystopian than anything our universe has to offer.