Re: (Tears) The Long Loud Silence by Wilson Tucker

On 6/2/25 08:58, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <pan$334c2$4ff4fba0$47bd6506$4d55eda4@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 13:10:57 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:
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The Long Loud Silence by Wilson Tucker
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Corporal Russell Gary wakes to discover that he is one of a handful of
survivors of a biological attack on eastern America...
and that there is no place in western America for survivors like Gary.
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/while-i-was-sleeping

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So this is how Ike was elected president in 1952 and not Stevenson...

 Well, the western US government is a military dictatorship but that
doesn't necessarily rule out Ike being the one in charge. If the
US has to have a military ruler, Ike isn't the worst choice.
 (checks Ike's timeline)
 It looks to me like he'd have been on the wrong side of the US
in this particular timeline.
 I wonder where MacAuthur was on June 20, 1951?

Early in 1951 he was running the Korean War but in April 19951 he was
relieved of command by President Truman. Looked it up on Wikipedia.
It may have been over MacArthur's plan to A-bomb a supply point for the
Chinese Communists which army ws assisting the North Koreans as the UN
was assisting the South Koreans.
Truman did not want to start a war with China and the USSR which was
closely allied with the Chinese at that time.
bliss