Nuclear Apocalypse

by John R. Taylor

Two families intend to test living conditions at a newly completed fallout shelter in the northern California mountains. During their stay, World War III begins, and they must now cope with radiation, starvation, and disease to survive. Yet the most perilous threat they face is a marauding, scorched earth fanatical religious cult, the Doomsday's Soldiers, marching their way and the looming battle that will decide who lives and who dies.

333 pages, Paperback

Published May 20, 2019

About the author

John Taylor is Professor of Physics and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He took his B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied the theory of elementary particles. He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and London in England, and at Princeton. and Colorado in the U.S. He first came to Colorado in 1966. Since then he has won five university and departmental teaching awards. He is the author of three text books: a graduate text on quantum scattering theory; an undergraduate text on error analysis, which has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish; and an undergraduate

text on modem physics. The second edition of the book on error analysis appeared in 1997. His research interests include quantum scattering theory and the foundations of quantum theory, and he has published some fifty articles in journals such as the Physical Review and the Journal of Mathematical Physics. For several years he was Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physics.
For the past eighteen years he has given his "Mr. Wizard" shows to some 60,000 children on the Boulder campus and in many towns in Colorado. He received an Emmy Award for his television series "Physics for Fun", which aired on KCNC TV in 1988 -1990. In 1989 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Citation of the American Association of Physics Teachers. In the same year, he won one of eleven Gold Medals in the national "Professor of the Year" program and was named Colorado Professor of the Year. In 1998, at the invitation of the International Science Festival in Dunedin, he toured New Zealand and gave IS "Mr. Wizard" shows in various museums and colleges.

Reviews

[Pam Shelton-Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this to be generally a decent book, though not overly engaging. I really don't care for using an actual person in the story, even from a news point of view. In particular, using Trump suggests an agenda already though it didn't become a huge issue. The main villain at the start has a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, yet months later is able to function nearly normally with only some abdominal pain and slight jaundice. Having seen this terrible disease several times, that is not very realistic. McShea has some potential with his nutty religious and evil zeal, but in the end is just crazy. Shawn and Duane are good guys and generally likable but do not plan at that well. How they failed to anticipate that the religious nuts wouldn't take their weapons when they "enlisted" was a bit puzzling. That and not seeing that the same guy in charge of the recruits, saw them at Boonville and might remember? The bunker group, led by Russ, is an intrepid lot, but I would have thought they might bury some caches of supplies around the area as a precaution. The writing was decent and I did enjoy the book.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though this book was ok, it is not brilliant, It hard to get the right balance with nuclear end of days books, how graphic should it be, and while I personally think some books tend to be overly too graphic, I found this book to be to polite . There has to be a balance that works , The characters both good and bad need to catch your imagination, They don’t in this book, Readers may like to read Kent David Kelly - From the fire - probably the best end of days book I personally have ever read.