Now (just like the widowed father of two daughters, John Matherson of Montreat College) you realize that this is not merely a temporary problem that will simply inconvenience you and your family for several days or weeks. Someone - though no one knows who because all North American communications capabilities have been obliterated - has detonated at least one electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) in the atmosphere above the United States. Then imagine that you (just like former Army officer John Matherson of Black Mountain, North Carolina) are slowly beginning to realize that something you feared as inevitable has finally happened. Putting it succinctly, anything and everything that depends upon electricity or electronic components is dead - really, really dead! Both your cell-phone and your MP3 are useless. Your laptop computer, though it presumably has battery power, will not work. on a delightful afternoon in the month of May - and then, if you can, imagine that the electricity in your house inexplicably goes off. Forstchen's brilliant novel One Second After) are having an ordinary spring day - it is, by the way, 4:50 p.m. Imagine that you (just like history professor John Matherson in William R.
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