GD+ Light edgewear, light creasing to lower front corner and to spine, otherwise an attractive copy, very clean throughout. Great cover art of Atomic Explosion.

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Title

The Jesus Factor

Publisher

London: Granada Publishing/Mayflower Books 1972 First Mayflower Paperback Printing ISBN 0-583-12098-9, London

Publication Date

1972

Language

English

ISBN 10

0583120989

ISBN 13

9780583120982

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

Good

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Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

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Synopsis

What If The Atomic Bomb Doesn’t Work?

The Strategic Air Command’s nuclear bombers are airborne. Six hundred Minutemen missile sites are switched on, prepared for attack. The U.S. nuclear submarine fleet is submerged and operating under sealed orders.
Across the North Pole, Russia’s missile countdown is holding at two hours from zero. And Red China has mobilized and gone to Condition Yellow.

Then, with the world only hours away from nuclear destruction, U.S. Senator Hugh McGavin What if the atomic bomb doesn’t work?

What if it never worked?

This startling new novel asks these questions – and more. It dramatizes the futile treadmill of the arms race; probes the collective guilt of the men who decided to drop the first atomic bomb against Japan; and leads again and again to the

How do you know the atomic bomb works? Did you ever see one go off? Or have you merely seen newsreels that could have been faked?

The Jesus Factor moves from Washington to Hiroshima, from Moscow to a tiny island named Tinian in the South Pacific, where the young Hugh McGavin flew the first atomic bombing mission in 1945. Now he puts the pieces of a fantastic puzzle together and

Why is the Jesus Factor the best kept secret in human history?

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