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Finding Designated Ground Zero, a fact-based historical novel, is the second book of The First Strike Trilogy: the U-2 spy plane soaring 70,000 feet above the earth well out of the reach of Soviet SAMs until May 1, 1960, when Francis Gary Powers was shot down near Sverdlovsk shaking the Eisenhower administration's plans for detente and moving the two superpowers ever closer to a nuclear confrontation."The powerful imagery brought the horrors and terror of the Cold War and nuclear war as a whole made this a truly atmospheric read."~ Anthony AvinaCIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia Office of Director Allen W. DullesApril 21, 1960Richard Bissell, deep in thought, paced back and forth in front of Director Dulles's desk as he read the Post. "The Soviets cannot have hundreds of ICBMs that Air Force intelligence is claiming," Bissell stated. "The question is, how can I convince you of this? If I don't, LeMay and Power will manufacture a situation that gives Ike no option but to launch a nuclear war. Allen, you and I both know that Soviet ICBMS have to be liquid-fueled with millions of gallons of RP-1 kerosene and LOX. The only way to deliver that fuel is by rail. Other than the Semipalatinsk and Baikonur-Tyuratam areas, there is insufficient rail service to fuel those missiles, and we have found a total of two launch pads in those areas."Dulles gazed up from his newspaper. Why is this guy always trying to push me into a confrontation with the politicos? Does he want my job? Bissell continued. "You've seen the drafts of SIOP-62. It calls for us to deliver more than 3,200 nuclear weapons to 1,060 Designated Ground Zeroes in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe with a death toll estimated in the hundreds of millions. Look at what happened to Nagasaki. We're going to use three 80-kiloton weapons on a city that size. That's fifteen times the explosive power of Fat Man, and you saw what that did." Dulles turned to the Sports section. Bissell knew the discussion was over.

Armageddon, a fact-based historical novel, is the third book of The First Strike Trilogy: A high-stakes race against time and politics unfolds in this gripping historical account of SIOP-62, revisit the tension of a pending nuclear attack, at a time when the safety of the entire world is in peril."As the Cold War tensions escalated and President Kennedy grappled with the Berlin crisis, Dr. Young became entangled in the web of political intrigue, deception, and nuclear brinksmanship. Yeggy's narrative explores the complexities of international relations, military strategy, and the personal sacrifices made by individuals who seek to prevent a global catastrophe."~K.C. Finn (Readers favorite)JCS-NSC Joint Meeting, Situation Room, October 16,Caleb continues his criticism of SIOP-62"On March 1, 1954, off Namu Island in Bikini Atoll, we conducted a thermonuclear test called Castle Bravo," Caleb began. "We exploded a 15-megaton surface burst bomb called the Shrimp. The resulting fireball was approximately 4.5 miles in diameter. It created a crater more than 6,500 feet in diameter and 250 feet deep. The mushroom cloud reached 47,000 feet with a diameter of 7 miles all in one minute. Nine minutes later, the cloud was 130,000 feet and 62 miles in diameter. It expanded at more than 100 meters per second. The blast-just a single nuclear weapon, mind you contaminated more than 7,000 square miles of the surrounding Pacific Ocean. Measurable fallout was detected in such faraway places as the Southwestern United States and Australia. Crew members on the Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a fishing vessel sailing approximately 200 miles east of the explosion, experienced severe radiation sickness. Some died. Look at what a 15-kiloton bomb did to Hiroshima, killing over 60 percent of its 250,000 residents. Yet SIOP-62 proposes 240 kilotons for all Soviet cities of a similar size and a total of more than 7,000 megatons for all targets. This is massive overkill and will destroy the entire Earth's atmosphere."Book III will take you to a post-nuclear war world where life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and mercifully short.