Lets discuss the book from 2009 - One Second After

Whom ever may have read this book. What are your thoughts on it. Does it seem realistic... Are the percentages of dead accurate??

Do you believe it will be bleaker than that outcome... Why was there never any mention about the Power Plants going down over the course of the year??

Are people truly that stupid with how everything has been going on for the last ten years, for them to not feel they need to prep in some remote way to help prepare themselves??

I find it eerily coming close to this same scenario. Reality though in my opinion is that if North Korea drops the unwelcome visit with an EMP that it would happen in the winter time when things for North America are at their weakest. Growing season will suck.. Unless you have seasoned wood, and a stove, you would be fucked warming your home..

Your thoughts?

Just read through it and what's amazing to me is how badly it's written. Forstchen is just an atrocious writer. He makes mistakes on every page, he has his characters say and do stupid things, his word selection is poor, it's just awful.
And yet he's coauthored multiple books with Newt Gingrich. How? He's terrible.

Diction is the word you're looking for, and you should never start a sentence with "and". Just sayin'.

EMP is theoretical and the damage is limited to a small area, even with the amplifier effects in the atmosphere ( 10x10 miles). Only the most advanced countries would be able to construct an EMP that worked.

Just read through it and what's amazing to me is how badly it's written. Forstchen is just an atrocious writer. He makes mistakes on every page, he has his characters say and do stupid things, his word selection is poor, it's just awful.
And yet he's coauthored multiple books with Newt Gingrich. How? He's terrible.

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... I had to skip those parts where he wrote about cannibalism!!!! ... ugh! ...
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Whom ever may have read this book. What are your thoughts on it. Does it seem realistic... Are the percentages of dead accurate??

Do you believe it will be bleaker than that outcome... Why was there never any mention about the Power Plants going down over the course of the year??

Are people truly that stupid with how everything has been going on for the last ten years, for them to not feel they need to prep in some remote way to help prepare themselves??

I find it eerily coming close to this same scenario. Reality though in my opinion is that if North Korea drops the unwelcome visit with an EMP that it would happen in the winter time when things for North America are at their weakest. Growing season will suck.. Unless you have seasoned wood, and a stove, you would be fucked warming your home..

Your thoughts?

I read it a long time ago and thought it was so powerful that I suggested it for book group. The few who actually read it thought it was terrifying. They had never heard of an EMP, but I can pretty well assure you they all went quickly back to sleep. Or if they didn't, they never mentioned it again.

Someone must have read the book by William R. Forstchen???

Is this too dark a subject to talk about right now in this sensitive time with NK?? I mean really , this shit needs to be discussed!

I did, twice. And Alas Babylon. Also good.


Two takeaways: Salt and Toilet paper.

Stock up.

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... I had to skip those parts where he wrote about cannibalism!!!! ... ugh! ...
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George Noory of coast to coast AM fame has been banging on about this for years, and even tried with some members of congress and a senator to get a preparedness plan and contingency measures into place for the USA.

Of course it all came to nothing.

Ives not read the book though the highest probability of WHEN not if this happens is not nuke EMP but the same as the "Carrington event" i.e. a massive solar flare directed to earth, as happened then, its just the earth being in the wrong place at the wrong time a sun spot belching and that day you don't want to be flying in a plane that's for sure.

I believe from memory, not sure how factual the book is there are 10 -20 of those massive ceramic transformers that would blow and would be the real problem, never mind getting the tooling up and ability for any industrialised process going even by water again in a organised faction by those who know and why and such like it would at current modern capacities take about 24 months to re make them for the USA.

Post doom well you get the picture.

I understand the tool bits and those who were part of this initial infrastructure are not even around any more.

I understand Britain has 4 of them.

So even if we got power stations going no GRID for at 3 yrs.

Which equates to probably about 250,000 people left from nearly 70 million, no food, ESP NO WATER, societal collapse, no communication, no government as such except bunkers hardened, they would just sit it out venture out with guns loot and steal and go back underground, let the masses eat each other, until a "green and Pleasant Land" was left after the rats and flies finished of eating all the corpses.

Probably the worst besides all out Nuclear War or Asteroid impact etc. threat to civilisation that exists, and it is probably more frequent in timing than other of natures doom things.

There is a new threat to this that has emerged to an extra concern over the last 10 yrs, when say in Britain 15 million teenagers and millennials find that for some reason, 5 seconds after the EVENT they cant access their smart phone and #Phosphatidylethanolamine then realise FB Instagram and all their daily Porn and Pic food has been withdrawn, well experts predict within 15 minutes of this happening a new type of quickly spreading unstoppable psychosis caused by cognitive dissonance and withdrawal symptoms and the realisation the people screaming for help in the plane wreckages just by them are REAL people, and that their entire previous social interactions have been fake that they will just be unable to communicate with themselves, get guidance on what to do or where to go, due to not thinking for themselves and not having the 7 second "next" "New" sensory input attention span, staring at the reality of the blank screen, the apologetic landscape and without guidance 90% of them will find that their brain actually liquefies in protect in a recursive loop of neural electrical storm.

10% though in this terrible situation will go and help those plane crash survivors, form their first real human relationships, gain language skills never possessed before. Then it has been theorised that,t after a few weeks of twitching from withdrawal symptoms, and learning to read real social cues and the 80% of communication lost in TXT speak and fake Hollywood TV and Kardashians they will evolve into what is being described in emergency preparedness plans as the "Post Twitter Millennials"

These my friends will be our only chance to continue society and in the long hard decades to follow, the EVENT, they will laugh and smile as they use ploughs that they fashioned from mobile phone masts, to feed the elderly, infirm, in non pesticide farmed fields and hold eye contact and expect it when talking to another human being.

There is as someone used to say to me always roses growing from mounds of Shit.

God Bless.