Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!Jim_H._Finch.DlosLV From: Jim_H._Finch.DlosLV@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #308 Message-ID: <3183@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 09:28:31 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3183 Posted: Thu Aug 8 09:28:31 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 06:23:35 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 21 From: finch.DlosLV@Xerox.ARPA > Well, I just arrived from 1955 (I walked) and the big >surprise is that it is still cold. I was in the Ground Observor >Corps then (we filled the gaps in the Air Defense Command radar net, >which was more gaps than net) and the question wasn't whether there >was going to be a nuclear war, it was when. I for one was utterly >astonished to see 1984 roll by. Incidentally, there was a >now-forgotton Phillip Wylie novel about a mid-1950's nuclear >exchange between the US and the USSR -- anybody remember the name? Phillip Wylie Wrote two novels about nuclear war with the Soviet Union. I don't know the exact time frame for either of them but the titles were "Tomorrow", which was a comparison of two midwest cities' survival capabilities. One had a good civil defense plan and the other one had none. The other title is "Triumph". A story of one very rich man and his multi- million dollar shelter. Jim Finch