CHAPTER FORTY FOUR
2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
The Skies over Florida
The dark blue Secret Service jet zoomed north against a blue sky, carrying the President back to Washington.
“It is two thirty in the morning in China,” Kurt Kimball said. “Reports from the Pentagon indicate that enormous numbers of people have been roused from their beds, and are being bused to fallout shelters. The CIA reports air raid sirens are being heard across Beijing, Shanghai, Chonqing, Hong Kong, and a host of other cities. The NSA has intel of communications indicating full mobilization of rocket units, fighter squadrons being scrambled, and naval strike groups pushing out of port.”
He looked at the small group gathered in the cramped meeting area at the front of the plane. “All indications are that t
