I am currently listening to the audiobook of Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka's terrifying 80s post-nuclear oral history WARDAY, which opens with a slightly botched USSR attack on the greater NYC area and always brings to mind these Bonestell paintings. Recommended book (I've read it probably 10 times since 1987), despite Strieber even…
I am currently listening to the audiobook of Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka's terrifying 80s post-nuclear oral history WARDAY, which opens with a slightly botched USSR attack on the greater NYC area and always brings to mind these Bonestell paintings. Recommended book (I've read it probably 10 times since 1987), despite Strieber eventually going off the deep end with UFO stuff later in his career. The description of the events leading up to the nuclear exchange from a character who relates being with the President in the NEACP is harrowing, as is the description from a survivor's perspective of the attack on NYC. I am always reminded that, in this telling, I would have been vaporized in an instant the day before my little sister's 12th birthday based on the detonation of a warhead in eastern Queens.
I am currently listening to the audiobook of Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka's terrifying 80s post-nuclear oral history WARDAY, which opens with a slightly botched USSR attack on the greater NYC area and always brings to mind these Bonestell paintings. Recommended book (I've read it probably 10 times since 1987), despite Strieber eventually going off the deep end with UFO stuff later in his career. The description of the events leading up to the nuclear exchange from a character who relates being with the President in the NEACP is harrowing, as is the description from a survivor's perspective of the attack on NYC. I am always reminded that, in this telling, I would have been vaporized in an instant the day before my little sister's 12th birthday based on the detonation of a warhead in eastern Queens.