Chapter 25
DOMINOES FALLING
News spread by word of mouth on college campuses, and students celebrated.
The campus at Berkeley, California, a nerve center for denuclearization rallies in the past, was empty. Thousands of people were evacuating San Francisco and the surrounding areas on foot. None of the cars, trucks, or motorcycles were operational, and the city was in the path of the approaching radioactive fallout. The deadly cloud was about to blanket the city.
In Washington, DC, people were gathered around the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. A division was occurring among citizens: those who were panicked about the drone attacks and those who celebrated what appeared to them to be global denuclearization.
Manhattan was completely dark, and the sound of gunfire echoed
