This book basically explains from the author's point of view what he felt would be the effects of a nuclear war on the United States. Written during a time where the threat of nuclear warfare with the Russians was omnipresent and when much of the population still had etched in memory the horrors of its effects on Japan, Pat Frank writes vividly on not only the physical struggle, but the emotional struggle to survive and …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is a very uncomfortable feeling to know such things as nuclear weapons do exist with such horrible potentials, and that such inventions cannot be "unlearned". I realize now such things are there so that we may have more respect for them, however, and they should never serve as more than a reminder of the great power of the human mind, but the even fiercer power of man's inventions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**