June 2017 Host:  Jaci

One Second After by William Forstchen

Summary

‘One Second After’ has been cited on the floor of Congress as a book that all Americans should read as it describes how one nuclear weapon could destroy the United States and its infrastructure, a dire warning of what could be our end.  This novel describes what would happen to a small North Carolina town literally one second after an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) hits the United States (which would most likely happen in the form of a nuclear attack or an EMP weapon).  All electricity, transportation, phones, etc. will shut down for probably years.  Many medications such as insulin will become unavailable for years and a large part of the population (especially elders and diabetics) will die within weeks or months.  The United States will regress at least 100 years and we will revert to a tribal society.  This is a good book and it makes you think about how you might begin to prepare for such a disaster.

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