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From: spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector)
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Subject: _War Day_ Any opinions?
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 21:29:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 21:29:00 1985
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Has anyone read the book _War Day_, by  Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka?
What did you think of it?

I have just finished it and found it an incredibly scary, yet very realistic
approach to what might happen if there were to be a nuclear war, limited or
otherwise....

For those who haven't heard of the book, in a nut shell, it is the story of
two men (both writers who are telling the story) who journey across America 5 
years after a limited nuclear war.  The book opens with a description of the 
"war", a series of suprise air and ground bursts that vapourize New York, 
Washington, San Antonio, and a few military bases.  The biggest effect is
EMP which does the obvious in destroying all things electronic, and cuts off
all communications, destroys the ecomony, disrupts distribution of medical 
supplies, etc.

The rest of the book deals not so much with the gorey details of radioactive 
death, but with how the people of America try to resume their lives.

The book is well written, and gives you the feeling that Strieber and Kunetka
may have been to the America they have written of, and came back to warn us of
it...


			David HM Spector
			NYU/acf Systems Group
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