num_pages: 374
description: The unthinkable happened five years ago. Now two writers have set out to find what's left of America. New York, Washington DC, San Antonio, &amp; parts of the Central &amp; Western states are gone. Famine, epidemics, border wars &amp; radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between. It was a 'limited' nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers' communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization. Whitley Strieber &amp; James Kunetka, old friends, take a dangerous odyssey across the former USA, sometimes hopeful that a new, peaceful world can be built over the old, sometimes despairing over the immense losses &amp; embittered people they meet. In an eerie blend of fact &amp; imagination, Strieber (author of The Wolfen &amp; The Hunger) &amp; Kunetka (author of City of Fire: Los Alamos &amp; The Atomic Age, 1943-1945 &amp; Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk) cut thru the doublespeak of military bureaucracy &amp; the rhetoric of the 1980's peace movement to portray America after Warday.
language: English
title: Warday
titlecomplete: Warday
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, War, Apocalyptic, Horror, Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 2913
publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston