Chapter FourteenThe United Federation of Nations on Earth was aware of the location of the mother ship and not as helpless as the wasps thought. Most of North America was a howling nuclear desert. Its remaining above-ground citizens, including President Black, the Canadian prime minister and Professor Stephen Anderson, had been sent to the Antarctic on rocket planes and megacopters. Many of the scientific and military groups that survived joined them later in the Antarctic.
Europe was presently the strongest continent, followed by Asia and Australia. The leadership now fell to the Dutch.
General Joseph Zellers of the UFN continued to advise attack.
“Instruct my counterpart in Holland, or what remains of Holland, to attack the ship where it hides in Himachal Pradesh.” His junior aide rus
