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Plot Outline |
On July 16, 1945, the United States of America tested the world's first nuclear explosion.
In less than a month, two more nuclear explosions took place on August 6 and 9 at Hiroshima, Japan and Nagasaki, Japan, respectively.
To date, there have been over 2000 nuclear explosions with the largest one taking place on October 31, 1961 during a testing by the Soviet Union.
That nuclear device was intended to have a yield of 100 megatons of TNT, but was reduced to a yield of 50 megatons just before launching to
limit the effects of nuclear fallout. The reduced yield was still 1400 times as powerful as both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions combined.
Present day, there is a fervor over global warming and unprecedented weather patterns throughout the world.
Hurricanes, tidal waves, flooding, and less-severe-yet-strange natural phenomena catch the attention of enough otherwise-oblivious people to
start asking why these events are happening. Religious zeal increases all over the world. A United States Presidential candidate makes a movie
about global warming.
While most of the world continues participating in their day to day ritualistic habitual ways of life, a small group of college students
investigating the effects of nuclear explosions on the planet make a grimly fantastic discovery. The unprecedented patterns in climate are consistent with
simulations run that depict the planet of Earth being shifted off of its original orbital path pre-1945. The Earth has been shifted off of its
4.5 billion year intended orbit by half a century of man's triggering of nuclear explosions.
More simulations consistently project the Earth continuing on in a declining state and only able to sustain the human population for
another optimistic 900 years. The solution is to nudge the Earth back onto its orbit with a nuclear explosion to undo the effects of those
previous 2000 explosions. The catch- the window of opportunity is quick approaching and the necessary site of detonation is a densely populated,
major metropolitan area with a massive count of casualties from the initial blast as well as fallout. It is up to our government to decide
whether to decimate an estimated third of the nation's population to secure the future of the planet, or to do nothing.
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