Los Alamos Nuclear Family Glows Up

Weapons of mass destruction have clear environmental effects, plus, they kill people. Living in fear is not always the best choice. This new book shows one approach to thinking about the unthinkable.

(PRWEB) September 14, 2004 -- The cold war taught us how to live on the brink. Few remember Kennedy and Kruschev with their fingers on the button, or the MacNamara principle of Mutually Assured Destruction. Yet, for four decades the world lived under the assumption that only 40 minutes was the difference between peace and total annihilation.

It is some comfort that today's War on Terrorism has a new doctrine that destroys buildings, cities, or small countries. We never think that a decade ago, the doctrine was the destruction of the human race.

"Children of Usher", the latest book by Glenn Fishbine, explores the psychology and personality that gave birth to our time. Written from the viewpoint of children raised in Los Alamos, home to the atomic and hydrogen bomb, it shows how children who were acutely aware of the risks of total war, learned, matured, and coped with Armageddon.

Their lessons are valuable lessons for our present day, lessons of sorrow, love, and humor in this incredible true story from the most remarkable community in modern history.

From the author of "The Investor's Guide to Nanotechnology and Micromachines" a sensitive, humorous, and uplifting true story of adolescence.

Glenn Fishbine's "Children of Usher" is available at fine bookstores as well as Amazon.com. From GOM Publishing.

reviewers:

"Once you open this book, plan on finishing it in one sitting..."

"...it's like balancing between heaven and hell and it will leave you thinking for days afterwards."

"...this may well be one of the funniest collections of stories to ever come out of Los Alamos during the cold war..."

Info on the web at http://www.glennfishbine.com
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