The Internet was invented by the DARPA labs to withstand a nuclear attack from the Russians. I can now tell you that if you nuke every major U.S. city, the internet no longer works. In fact, no communications work. Guess the engineers forgot that you need sustainable power to run all that shit.
The nukes obliterated the government’s communication networks. If anyone still existed in some remote operations center, they were more concerned about staying alive and eating than making sure that one surviving general was able to talk to another surviving general. Human nature was funny like that; it all comes down to basic survival first.
Admiral Wallace and I had several long talks about the remaining government in Cheyenne Mountain and NORAD. With no way to reach them and no aircraft with the range to physically fly there, the men and woman in that mountain were effectively non-existent. Wallace had a tough call. Where to go? The North American continent and parts of Europe would be wrapped in nuclear winter for at least a few years. Maybe New Zealand would be good. It wasn’t my decision though so I kept my mouth shut at the officers’ meetings. The admiral had close to six thousand people to worry about. Eventually the galley’s food would run out and they would still need to eat. The ship has unlimited range via nuclear power, but not unlimited food.
As for me, I stayed busy flying patrols when they needed me and helping the ship’s XO document everything I went through. We agreed that we should have a formal record of the events if the American government was ever resurrected. That is, if it managed to rise from the dead.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jason Winn an IT professional and author, living in Northern Virginia. He divides his time between his wife and three kids, writing, and work. His passions are history, film, anthropology, geopolitical analysis, and James Bond. He reads as often as he can, preferring authors like Stephen King, Pierce Brown, George R.R. Martin and Rick Atkinson. Jason believes writing should be an allegory to social issues. With his writing, Jason strives to do two things, connect with a misunderstood demographic and educate through transportive storytelling.
Table of Contents
Also by Jason Winn
Contents
PART 1
Get to the Chopper!
PART 2
Fortress Pentagon
PART 3
The 100,000 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Battle for Fortress Pentagon
PART 5
Get to the Bunker
PART 6
Get to the Helo
PART 7
The Rockets’ Red Glare
EPILOGUE
Closure
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