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Standing at Babylons door

 

Now as the missiles began to fly, the book changed over from a direct dialog of the events to follow to slightly more speculative text as we don't really know what the exact ramifications will or would be if nuclear war were really to be fall the world as we know it. .
             Its set in a small town called For Repose, between Pensacola and Tampa Florida were the Brother of a SAC Officer, Mark Bragg's Brother Randy lives and as the story picks up the United States and the Soviet Union are on the brink of war so he wires Randy that he is sending his wife and two children to live him as he lives in Omaha write in the middle of the Northeast infamous "Silo Belt." So when Miss Wechek receives the telegram of the impending actions of Randy's brother she rushes his telegram right over to him, and sticking to her character in the book as the towns gossip queen begins to tell any one who will listen what she has learned. But, being that Miss Wechek has a knack for the gossip not many people believed her right away. So as Randy, warns a very select few of his friends and began stock piling every thing he could, and hardly anyone took notice, then the media caught wind of an unnamed source some where in Omaha, (coincidence? I think not) that tension between the two super powers had tightened, and .
             the world was on the brink of war. This parallels to the predicted reaction that the Pentagon expected from "U.S. noncombatants" in recently declassified reports that have begun to be released to the general public. However, the leaking of a notice by unnamed .
             Gibson III.
             personnel that nuclear holocaust was upon us, is far less believable and again strays away from Franks attempts to keep his book as "realistic" as possible. .
             But never the less, the following mourning after the late night arrival of Randy's brother's family, war breaks out. With in a short time most of the major cities in the United States Are little more than Mushroom clouds in the mourning sky and the entire Russian mainland has been obliterated.


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