On the morning of August 9th, 1945 the investment of twenty-five billion dollars in 2008 equivalent currency resulted in an atomic flash in the sky above the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Eighty thousand people ceased living in less time than a single tick of the clock. In the weeks that followed, an additional one hundred fifty thousand died as a result of collateral damage and exposure. But that wasn’t the end of the story…
Since that time, the governments of the world have applied themselves to the development of biological and chemical weaponry. These technologies cost less to create, but carry with them the potential of greater human suffering than the atomics that preceeded them. The ultimate goal of these technologies is to kill the target without damaging the property.
My new book THE SHADOW ZONE explores the outcome of the hypothetical deployment of such weapons and the impact they might have on society, including the most innocent among us – our children.
What would it take to halt the construction, storage and use of such weapons? When millions of dollars are involved, would any industrial leader or any cog in the wheels of modern bureaucracy lift their little finger to end it? What would happen if someone else entered the controversy?
What if…
– that person had the capability to actually cause a change?
– she was a member of the innocent group that suffered most?
– she escaped the toxic mists of a biological disaster to enforce her own form of justice?
– if she came out of…
dpInk Author: Richard Paracka 