Jim H. reviewed on 7/27/2011 + 47 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This book is an interesting read for those of us who are real Armageddon junkies. Because it was written in the 1980s some of its story line is not only out of date, it is historically inaccurate. The authors chose to focus more on the geopolitical causes and effects of a limited nuclear exchange between the United States and the USSR. Since the USSR ceased to exist even before the period in which the book is set, the discussions of that period are way off key. As a side note, there is considerable discussion of the dismantling of World Trade Center buildings after the war and of course those were gone along with the USSR.

I found the book to be pretty dry in places where the authors inserted what were supposed to be government reports on radioactivity, death rates, famine and diseases that followed the war. While I enjoyed the interview format that they used throughout the books, I skimmed - or less - most of the "reports."

Not sorry I read it, but wouldn't consider ever reading it again or even recommending it very strongly

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