Excerpt: Warlove: An atomic tale

On August 6th 1945 a bomb that was dropped from an American bomber exploded with more force then all of the other bombs and explosives that had been used during WW1 and WW2 combined. On that day nearly 70,000 people died instantly although the death toll from radiation and other effects would eventually be capped at 140,000 men, women and children.
Then, on August 15th, 1945, another American bomber dropped it's payload and flattened the city of Nagasaki instantly killing over 40,000 people and by cause and effect nearly another 40,000 in later days, leaving the total death toll at over 80,000 men women and children.
And on May 2nd, 2012, thirty nuclear missiles, each one carrying a payload ten times as powerful as the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, lifted off from their underground silos and flew through the air toward predestined targets. Upon impact each of those missiles delivered a blast that could flatten all of L.A. In one blow. The instant death toll totaled at nearly 34.6 Million people with the death toll from radiation and other effects bringing the total death toll up to around 121 million people.
As the old punk song says. It really was the end of the world as we knew it.
Then, though it may seem trivial in comparison to the thought of all that death a man named Marcus Cole lost precisely eleven months and two weeks of his life. No memory, no record, no sign of him for eleven months and two weeks. Then almost a year later he woke up, got out of bed, left his motel room and entered the world of tomorrow without any idea that so much time had passed and though as I said it may seem to be overshadowed by the deaths of so many people, in truth there could be nothing more important then what happened to Marcus Cole during those elven months and two weeks. Nothing more important all.