User blog comment:900bv/The Zombies Storyline: Suddenly Interesting/@comment-3967954-20130707140823/@comment-3967954-20130707155629

To set the record straight:

Yes, I realise Nuketown Zombies takes place shortly after Nuketown's detonation, and Nuketown is synonymous with Moon, but let's think about this for a minute.

It's never actually specified when the bomb at Nuketown detonated. After a multiplayer match, sure, but there's no date confirmed. It's also interesting to note that some of Black Ops' mulitplayer maps take place in the 70's, not the 60's. Nuketown's date is never specified at all. And even if it was, the multiplayer-verse is completely seperate from the Zombies-verse.

Moon doesn't seem 60's-like at all. I realise that in Zombies, futuristic tech had been invented by 935 way back in the 40's, but a moon base in the 60's? That's a little far, even for Zombies. Not to mention that all the tech on the moon seems to be pretty advanced, even by today's standards. At least Der Riese looked like it was from the 40's.

Green Run's the weird one. Bar the robot and the underground lab, there's not much modern tech anywhere on the map. The only explanation I can think of to explain Green Run is that it's either a development oversight (maybe Treyarch originally intended it to take place in the 60's) or that it's some kind of 60's-themed rural town. I have no clue.

Die Rise is really the key to understanding the date of Richtofen's Grand Scheme. Die Rise is confirmed to take place sometime after 1996, and the SDC zombies kind of indicate it takes place around 2025. So that means that China must have been taken out in 1997 at the very earliest - a good few decades after the 60's.

On top of all this, the Green Run characters recognise 2025 weapons, make references to modern-day pop culture, etc etc.

Maybe Treyarch will explain it, but for now I'm waging that Moon happened around 2025-ish. The 60's setting just doesn't add up when you take things into consideration.

Also: MotD is completely unrelated from the rest of the Zombies canon. The characters are in purgatory and the zombies are implied to be under control by the great Satan himself.