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Finding Designated Ground Zero, a fact-based historical novel, is the second book of The First Strike Trilogy: the U-2 spy plane soaring 70,000 feet above the earth well out of the reach of Soviet SAMs until May 1, 1960, when Francis Gary Powers was shot down near Sverdlovsk shaking the Eisenhower administration's plans for detente and moving the two superpowers ever closer to a nuclear confrontation."The powerful imagery brought the horrors and terror of the Cold War and nuclear war as a whole made this a truly atmospheric read."~ Anthony AvinaCIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia Office of Director Allen W. DullesApril 21, 1960Richard Bissell, deep in thought, paced back and forth in front of Director Dulles's desk as he read the Post. "The Soviets cannot have hundreds of ICBMs that Air Force intelligence is claiming," Bissell stated. "The question is, how can I convince you of this? If I don't, LeMay and Power will manufacture a situation that gives Ike no option but to launch a nuclear war. Allen, you and I both know that Soviet ICBMS have to be liquid-fueled with millions of gallons of RP-1 kerosene and LOX. The only way to deliver that fuel is by rail. Other than the Semipalatinsk and Baikonur-Tyuratam areas, there is insufficient rail service to fuel those missiles, and we have found a total of two launch pads in those areas."Dulles gazed up from his newspaper. Why is this guy always trying to push me into a confrontation with the politicos? Does he want my job? Bissell continued. "You've seen the drafts of SIOP-62. It calls for us to deliver more than 3,200 nuclear weapons to 1,060 Designated Ground Zeroes in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe with a death toll estimated in the hundreds of millions. Look at what happened to Nagasaki. We're going to use three 80-kiloton weapons on a city that size. That's fifteen times the explosive power of Fat Man, and you saw what that did." Dulles turned to the Sports section. Bissell knew the discussion was over.

Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950's and early 1960's. "This novel is so important for everyone who cares about nuclear disarmament because as philosopher George Santayana wrote "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."~ Melissa Burch, Bestselling & Award Winning Author My Journey Through War and PeaceFor a decade, Dr. Caleb young, a gifted physicist and chief science officer for the CIA, had shaded National Intelligence Estimates and Rand reports on war gaming. He wanted to thwart the US military's push for a nuclear first strike. Soviet GRU Colonel Oleg Penkovsky had passed information to Young at more than one Pugwash Peace Conference, revealing how inept Soviet capabilities were. A US preemptive strike would destroy the earth's ozone layer.Dr. Young, secretly an Einstein schooled pacifist, felt a personal obligation to prevent a globally destructive nuclear war. However, the realities of US nuclear superiority were progressively becoming harder to manage. By mid-1953, the United States had 1,169 deliverable atomic bombs. It could drop them with 160 B-36 heavy bombers and 350 B-47 medium bombers. The Soviet Union had 120 atomic bombs that could only be delivered to the US by a handful of one-way TU-4A experimental bombers through thousands of F-86 Sabres. By 1962, the US had more than 3,000 thermonuclear warheads and 5,000 tactical nuclear weapons. U-2 flights and Corona satellite images were exposing Khrushchev's lies about "grinding out missiles like sausages." The US had a 17-1 advantage in deliverable warheads.The Soviets intercontinental ballistic missiles (only four were verified) took four hours to prepare for launch. US B-52s could easily destroy them from fail- safe points with a pair of 20 megaton bombs. Even more ominously, the Thor and Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missiles could deliver warheads in less than 8 minutes after launch from England, Turkey, or Italy. The US could locate and destroy the Soviets' 150 round- trip bombers before they left Soviet runways. Soviet SSBN subs were noisy and had to surface to fire missiles. They were easy prey for the US Navy. In late October 1962, President John F Kennedy stopped the US military from initiating a first strike. It came to be known as the "Cuban Missile Crisis." "We lost" Air Force general Curtis Lemay shouted at Kennedy. Military leaders wanted a nuclear war that day while they had a clear first strike advantage.Now the Department of Justice (DOJ) has many questions, and they believe Dr. Caleb Young has the answers. Nicholas Katzenbach, the DOJ's chief deputy, is ready to prosecute Dr. Young on trumped up espionage charges. And he wants to know about the CIA's involvement in the November 22, 1963, assassination of President Kennedy.