Thanks. Hadn’t heard of it but it is my kind of book.
Looked up synopsis in Goodreads. US vs. Communists in biolgical warfare oneupsmanship.
As a kid in junior high I did one class presentation about upcoming nuclear war possibilities with poster board illustrations and charts and detailed descriptions of the destruction of human life.
Also did a book report on Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald (7th underground level as Americans unleased nuclear war, making re-emergence to the surface impossible.
And I used to like the movies with “no one left alive on Earth.” Used to imagine the places I went if no people wre there. Obviously I would want medical and pharmaceutical help. Radio right winger Earl Nightingale said we need people ahead of us in the places we travel so they built roads, grew and harvested foods and were ready to serve our many needs when we arrived there. Condescending and terrific, I thought.
One I remember was The World, the Flesh and the Devil with Harry Belafonte in “a post-apocalyptic world with very few human survivors.”
I clearly remember the funny unintentional film error in which the supposedly empty NYC had a bridge in the distance
with the usual daily traffic jam on it moving along. Funny. Today they would blur it out or cgi the bridge as empty.
And was sad Burgess Meredith’s character broke his only glasses on the Twilight Zone and couldn’t enjoy his reading time now that the annoying human race was gone.
Probably set me up to be the poster I am today. Fighting misanthropy. Tip: people are much worse today than they were in the 1950s and 60s.