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Book announcement
PR Web Release, November 1, 2005 by Scott Douglas
The Satire which ENDED the COLD WAR Moby and Ahab on a Plutonium Sea, is now published. Read it and solve a puzzle of history.
A generation ago you learned to laugh and love "The Bomb"? Well Dr. Strangelove is back as Mad Captain Briggs of the USS Athena (a nuclear submarine) but this time around he decides to meltdown Antarctica! And so the chase to stop him begins. Herman Melville as well as Stanley Kubrick would be proud of this tale of the sea and obsession. Let's hope Briggs and his crew are found and soon.
(PRWEB) Nov. 1, 2005 -- Why did the Cold War end so... abruptly?
Because the lighthearted satire Moby and Ahab on a Plutonium Sea was released in the Spring of 1988 onto the baby Internet due to the author Scott Douglas opposing censorship.
Moby and Ahab on a Plutonium Sea is a work of fiction created from a true event which occurred 300 miles off the coast of South Africa in September of 1979. A VELA classed satellite detected a double flash explosion the signature of a nuclear detonation. The VELA was placed in orbit under the nuclear arms treaty to detect this specific violation. Radiation was found downwind by New Zealanders. The original title of Moby and Ahab on a Plutonium Sea was The Ross Factor and released freely worldwide in the spring of 1988 due to political intrigue. Three months later the Berlin Wall fell, ending the Cold War. Perhaps Antarctica will not face a rapid super meltdown as Moby and Ahab on a Plutonium Sea suggests, but global warming is real and the seas are rising. The author only asks the reader to keep an open mind, enjoy a good sea tale and solve a puzzle of history.
If literature could act as a force of nature Moby and Ahab on a Plutonium Sea would be a category 5 Hurricane! A superb sea tale, and a very clever use of chaos and modeling science from an Antarctic and a nuclear perspective.
The writing is crisp the characters well developed and the plot tight and action filled. Too bad Gregory Peck is not alive to play mad Captain Briggs, or Stanley Kubrick to direct the movie. This would be cinema at its best.
But now at least the novel is available after nearly 20 years for the public's discretion.
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