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? On the 100th anniversary of nuclear bombing of Hiroshima a dissident group takes over a missile base and fires an ICBM at New York. ? This starts a global chain reaction of nuclear & biological attack & response. ? Remote Cooktown wakes next day to the news that most major cities in the world have been largely destroyed by nuclear attack. ? Two men travel south and find towns there have been hit by biological warfare, one of them contracting tularemia as a result. ? Cooktown plans to become self-sufficient in food and water, using wind turbines for power, and horses for transport and farming. ? New crops are planted and new houses built for stranded tourists and survivors who arrive from remote Australia and New Guinea. ? After conflict occurs over debt a new egalitarian society is established with a 20-hour working week, a revolutionary education policy is formed, and the world’s first true democracy is established. ? Religion is replaced by new fairness and good behaviour laws. ? The end of the year comes and life in Cooktown has never been better. The legendary aeronautical engineer John Argyris called Geoff: “The greatest scientist in Australia” and “The hope of the
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