Does it matter? Really?

A single atomic device will wreck havoc for a limited area, larger if it is
exploded higher off the ground. The reality will be other countries joining
in the fray. It could be a real mess. Myself, I'd rather be above ground
and die in the initial blast than survive that and start fighting with folks
for food (preferably not radioactive). That would be a long and painful
death.

You'll have to forgive the lateness in my reply; I've installed Ubuntu and
don't have newsgroups installed on that side. I fire up Vista perhaps once
a week or so as it is so slow. With Ubuntu, it is perhaps 20 seconds from
turning on power to reading my e-mail or surfing the web. No anti-virus to
update. Updates on the system, even 7 or 8 files totaling 10 MB or so take
only perhaps 20 seconds to download *and* install. No reboot. No pain.
Just blazing speed.

I hate Vista. It is a real slug.


Best regards from Rochester, NY
Jim



73 from Rochester, NY
Jim


"Will" wrote in message
...
This guy was on C-span Books today. Fascinating concept, It is Semi
Fiction. EMP is real, the story is fiction, set 1 second after a
nuclear device sends out an electro-magnetic pulse....and the world
goes quiet...



New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us
a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one
man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town
after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America
back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic
Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our
enemies.

Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on
the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book
already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly
realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire
United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the
Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of
On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical
American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our
end.