2025

A surprise attack launched from the International Space Station will result in 95% of the urban and suburban U. S. population dying within two weeks due to starvation, violence, and the effects of radiation. There will be no time for a retaliatory strike as strategic assets are destroyed. Our cities will become jungles ruled for a short time by gangs that carve out their territory, seeking food, water, plunder, and rape. An EMP attack will immediately magnetize all internal combustion engines; airplanes will fall from the skies; all unprotected vehicles will immediately crash due to loss of control. Survivors will wait in vain for a return to normalcy. China invades the U. S. while Russia invades Europe. As Albert Einstein once remarked, "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I am confident that World War IV will be fought with sticks and rocks." This is a story of survival.