Alexander Monroe

The Cannons of Armageddon: a Terrorist Perfect Storm Alexander Monroe

The Cannons of Armageddon is a chilling illustration (64 pages non-fiction, 222 pages fiction) of a very plausable nuclear terrorist attack by al Qaeda and Iran against an America whose government, populaton and electronic infrastructure is currently so unprepared and vunerable that modern technological civilization is destroyed in most of our country. As was the case in the use of large airplanes loaded with thousands of gallons of aviation fuel as potential WMD prior the 911 attacks, few people realize how easily crude Hiroshima size atomic bombs (uranuim "gun assembly" devices) could be built and what an existential threat to America terrorists represent once they posses weapons grade nuclear material for the small explosive cores of these devices. The non-fiction chapters form the scientific, geo-political and theological basis for a frightening plot: In an attack later in this decade America suffers damages of biblical proportions and suddenly people find themselves in a world turned upside down with a government helpless to return the country to a semblance of civilization. When no city is safe from sudden nuclear destruction & critical infrastructure on which our high tech civilization depends ceases to exist, chaos and a desperate struggle to survive ensues as millions are without the last 100 years of technical progress, including a family fighting to survive the winter in a New England cut off from the outside world and plunged into a mid-evil darkness.