I'm working on a lot of assumptions so maybe if we clear a few things up, a proper timeline could be establish. I'm suggesting this kind of timeline:

[b]Apocalypse[/b]
2014: Global Political Tension, initial deceleration of war and deployment of troops.
2015: Complete and Official deceleration of war of all sovereign nations. Official Start of World War III.
2016: Mass Casualties; Human Rights Violation; Mass Declining Moral, everybody wanting the war to finally end.
2017: Governments Fall but Peace Negotiations are going nowhere.
2018: The first Nuclear Missiles are lunched; Anarchy through out the world.
2019: The Seventh Seal:

[quote]And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer [it] with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast [it] into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

- Revelation 8:1-6; King James Version[/quote]

[quote]And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

- Revelation 16:1; King James Version[/quote]

[b]Post-Apocalypse[/b]
2020: Nuclear Winter and Fallout; First Signs of Mutations. Possible Pseudo-Governments are establish.
2030: Stabilization of the weather and mutations, decreasing Fallout. Total disappearance of Pseudo-Governments.
2039: Present Day....

Reference: 1) [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction]M.A.D.[/url] 2) [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust]Nuclear Holocaust[/url] 3) [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter]Nuclear Winter[/url]
Note: I read all of them before, I don't know if I remember the contents exactly but anyways, a realistic timeline isn't really necessary to get to the actual setting of the story just that the characters should be able to flow accordingly, ya know what I mean?

P.S.: Dang, I wrote too slow, lols....
On second thought, after doing small revisions, I think this timeline would fit the initially posted description of the setting and Isam's Background. What do you guys think?