*“In The End, It Is Our Defiance That Redeems Us.” – Mark Rowland* “To the world you may be just another person, but to one person you may just be the world (Snyder, ThinkExist.com). In Pat Frank’s book, Alas Babylon, Randy Bragg is no one of importance. He is failed politician that lives off his family’s land in a small town, Fort Repose, in Florida. But For this small town lawyer everything was about to change. The United States had been on edge of Nuclear Warfare with Russia for years. Frank
focus of the episode as it is meant to play on the anxiety of people not having a shelter and what they would do if they didn't have one when doomsday came. The other objects that play an important role during the episode is a radio that is on the CONELRAD station which was a real government station that was used solely to warn of an enemy nuclear attack during the Cold War. They use the radio many times during the episode as it is how they recieve updates on what is going
he relates it to a space ship because the year before the car was made Sputnik was launched. He than says, “Eisenhower was enclosed safely in the White House, Elvis was king, and the Cold War was turning icy-hot, as suggested by the Civil Defense Conelrad logo on the radio dial.” Just looking at this car brought him back memories of what was happening at the time the car was made. Then he says, “I dimly understood that by possessing this car I was retrieving part of my past and—through a kind of Proustian