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The Great Coverup
Before the nuclear explosion.
There was a group of wealthy individuals and  their constituents who had made provisions to have all of the best food, clothing, etc; to live as they were accustomed to in their huge underground bomb shelters. Miniature cities had been established to provide their way of life, as if nothing at all would or had happened. There were a small number of billionaires still accustomed to having the ability to bend the population to follow their desires. They purchased and stock piled all of the precious metals. The people in the new underground society were so focused on their own needs they neglected to anticipate the ramifications of a nuclear war. They thought their individual wealth would bring the same control over nations and the populations that were left when all radiation had disappeared.
Five years after the explosion
Five years after the nuclear war ended, survivors started to emerge from their safe areas and shelters that had been provided by Mother nature. Surprisingly, the remnants of civilization were largely composed of humans living in the most remote areas of the world, small tribes of forest people, cave dwellers, desert dwellers, the die hard dirt farmers, and the visionary leaders. The environmental savers, the people who always appreciated what nature provided, were the ones that lived by their wits alone and survived. They had the ability to pick the areas that seemed most protected from initial explosions and radiation downfall, and devised extreme but logical methods to stay alive. Each one knew of the cities beneath the earth, but had been excluded from entering because of their social standing or beliefs.
Survivors
As the wealthy were lavishing in their cavernous bomb shelters and waiting for the fallout to disappear, the remnants of civilization above the ground had gradually drifted together and banded to become a small nation of mixed nationalities, intellectual minds, and visionaries, with simple social standards and peaceful feelings toward human beings. Some of them had not experienced the greed and violence of world development. They became a race of nonviolent people adhering to simple ways of life that embraced nature and what was left of the environment.
Effects of greed
The New World wealthy and politically orientated people had tunnel vision when it came to structuring a new world from their underground shelters. The billionaires within the confines of underground cities were very busy for the five years. They decided who would govern, how many farmers would be allowed to work, who would be the banker, and when the sale of land would be allowed. They also decided how many taxes would be imposed on the remaining survivors of the civilization in order to provide more money for their coffers. They seemed to decide how the world would live and be dependant upon their mandates to live or be cast out as undesirables from the society. Their food and supplies were beginning to run low. Everything was in place to start their new world society under their rules and mandates. The day to evacuate the mammoth underground utopia was set for October 12, 2078. On that day they opened the vault doors to the outside and stared in amazement at huge boulders where they had expected to gaze at the outdoors. They had been so wrapped up in their own importance—they had built the bomb shelters very deep in the mountainous areas and they failed to hear the thud as their entrances were completely sealed by the collapse of the mountains above them when
the
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© Don & Norma Duclon 2002-2006
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