CHAPTER 14Mike lay listening to the newscast:
“The assessment of world damage from the brief atomic war is now almost complete. Fortunately, three quarters of the United States was spared. With the government reformed in Houston, Texas, the work of rescue and rehabilitation went into gear in remarkably short order. But the task was stupendous with our Great Lakes cities in ruins, the upper eastern seaboard devastated and the country from Lake Michigan to the Atlantic coast in total panic.
“The most fortunate aspect of the h*******t was the quick reestablishment of communication with Russia, and the uncovering of the Red Chinese plot to destroy the western world through an atomic coup originating in the communist-held reaches of the Himalayas. The joint retaliation of the allied forces of
