Standing at Babylons door

“Our force structure needs to be robust, flexible, and credible enough to meet the worst threats we can reasonably postulate.” Was the opening remark of the “presidents” speech at the beginning of Alas Babylon and this set into motion the unstoppable count down that led up to nuclear war, and the irradiation of three quarters of the worlds population. Much as in J.F. Kennedy’s under lying sentiments in his speech on Russia’s

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. Leaving many of the small towns like Fort Repose completely isolated from the outside world. Without power, communication and the ability to travel they have no way of contacting any local or national government or even civilian authorities to know the extent of the damages caused. This two chapter synopses of the “war of all wars” is the only time that Pat Frank in any of his science fiction novels shows victory (for what its worth in a nuclear war to the United Sates) because he made it a point in most of his books to make the U.S. the decisive loser. So it breaks away from his “norm” in that he destroys Russia unequivocally but only the major cities and sack bases in America. Many critics say that the Department of Defense, namely the CIA influenced his writing of this book at the very height of the Russian American arms race. Though it was never proven and Frank never admitted such, he never fully denied it either.

nuclear stance around the world in the first week in October 1962 could have been the catalyst to have changed the out come of the Cuban missile crisis, the above quote was what set Russia to end the diplomatic stale mate and launch against the united sates and we to retaliate in the same. 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

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