Posted on 09/16/2015 10:50:21 AM PDT by lulu16
The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second After
Months before publication, William R. Forstchen’s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit.
The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging.
Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an “Army of National Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away.
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That was the intention but it begs the question. If we have never tested an EMP, how do we know it has this devastating effect on the entire country?
They have tested EMP, just not a real bomb on a real city. They know EMP real and they know its effect on modern electronics.
Exactly. They don’t know the impact of a strike. It’s Y2K all over again.
“It’s Y2K all over again.”
Hardly, we know EMP is real. We know it destroys electronics. There are a million variables which impact the actual damage. Not all of those variables have been tested in real life.
I don’t need to drop a nuke on a city to know what would happen.
Yes but we admittedly have never tested an EMP to see if it will wipe out the whole country. The tests in the 60’s only affected a very limited area(like one city).
The sequel will not make you happier. I bought my Kindle copy last night, read into the early a.m., finished at lunch today. Good stuff - thematic broad hint: think Matthew Bracken, i.e. FR’s Travis McGee. If you read the free sample on Amazon, it’s easy to see.
I sure wish I had done that since Jr. High school. I have thought that many, many times yet... never thought of starting the list now...... duh! good for you!
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